2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis

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‘Ideals can’t be derailed by jail sentences’: Thousands protest jailing of Catalan separatists

Protest

“We’re not going to stop thinking what we think, ideals can’t be derailed by [jail] sentences,” said Oriol Jungqueras, Catalan separatist who was given the longest sentence of 13 years for his role in a failed bid for secession. Jungqueras said a new referendum was “inevitable.”