Spanish police attacks on would-be voters in Catalonia — mistake or part of a plan?

Spain’s image on the world stage has been tarnished by the worldwide broadcast of images showing its police attacking would-be voters in Catalonia, and those tactics have not slowed the Catalan government’s march toward independence. So the question lingers: Why, in the age of the smartphone, would Spain use force this way in order to quash a disputed independence referendum?

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