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Link: https://www.rt.com/news/405311-catalonia-referendum-police-voters/
With the referendum declared illegal by Madrid, special police units drafted in from across Spain smashed into polling stations at dawn to seize ballot boxes. Police actively used rubber bullets and truncheons to forcibly remove voters and disperse crowds of pro-independence demonstrators, injuring at least 840 people across Catalonia. In the southern Catalan town of Mont-roig del Camp, demonstrators forced a squadron of the civil guard to retreat. Local Catalonian firefighters also formed human shields on several occasions to protect people from federal law enforcers.