Barcelona's Carrer Marina has been filled this Saturday afternoon with hundreds of thousands of people calling for the release of the Catalan political prisoners and voicing their indignation at the repression which Catalonia is suffering. The cameras of Catalonia's TV3 captured aerial images, giving an impression of the size of the crowd in the rally for "Liberty":
L'helicòpter de TV3 sobrevola el carrer Marina de Barcelona per veure la magnitud de la manifestació contra la sentència del procés https://t.co/34iOOklv2E pic.twitter.com/CWAwDh7gNi
— 324.cat (@324cat) October 26, 2019
Els manifestants contra la sentència omplen el carrer Marina des de l’avinguda Icària fins a la Sagrada Família, entre els carrers Mallorca i Provençahttps://t.co/3WZaFrCSbu pic.twitter.com/Aauf0zg9UU
— 324.cat (@324cat) October 26, 2019
Sergi Alcàzar
Barcelona's city police force the Guàrdia Urbana has estimated the number of participants in today's rally at 350,000. The demonstration held two years ago in the same street, just after the imprisonment of most of the Catalan government and the exile of the rest, brought together an estimated 750,000 people.
The organizers of today's event have questioned the objectivity of the Guàrdia Urbana figures, given that, according to Òmnium's Marcel Mauri, "two years ago we filled the street just as have done today." "It's inadmissible to manipulate the attendance figures", he wrote.
🔴@marcelmauri: “És inadmissible manipular les dades d’assistència. Fa dos anys vam omplir el carrer Marina fins la Sagrada família com ara. Demanarem explicacions” @tv3cat pic.twitter.com/i7Wco5wNsX
— Òmnium Cultural (@omnium) 26 d’octubre de 2019