Ciutadans has this Thursday submitted a petition to the Spanish Ombudsman to end what they see as Catalan government attacks against members of the public who remove yellow loops from public spaces.
Specifically, the party's leader in Catalonia, Inés Arrimadas, alongside its spokesperson in the Spanish Congress, Juan Carlos Girauta, presented a 38-page document as an "appeal", wanting to "urge for the violation of certain rights and liberties in Catalonia to end", Girauta said.
In Arrimadas' opinion, "it's very sad" that they should have to appeal to the Ombudsman to ensure that the Catalan government doesn't "persecute" its citizens, "but the situation in Catalonia isn't normal".
For this reason, in the face of the "abandonment, neglect and defencelessness" which "many Catalans" feel, Cs' leader said that it will "continue to defend the citizens of Catalonia" and "the equality of all Spaniards".
"We won't stay at home"
Arrimadas said that now "is the time to recover social harmony", which said happens "when any Catalan, whatever party they vote for, can go to the beach" without seeing yellow crosses in support of the pro-independence leaders in prison.
"We won't stay at home," she said. "They can't ask me, after winning the election, to stay at home watching Torra say he'll attack the [Spanish] state," she added.
Condemning "any attack"
On the topic of an attack against a Telemadrid journalist at a demonstration against the violence in Catalonia organised by the party in Barcelona yesterday, Arrimadas emphasised her "condemnation of any attack". She said she's spoken with both the camera operator attacked and Telemadrid's director.