On a visit to the Catalonian capital of Barcelona this week, Spain’s king Felipe VI required 1,300 riot police to protect him as he attended an awards ceremony, accompanied by his wife and his own teenage daughters.
Several thousand protesters gathered to ‘greet’ him, burning pictures of the king and stamping on the ashes of a monarch they have reviled ever since he accused them of “violating the democratic principles of the rule of law” in the aftermath of that 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
It has been more than three weeks since Spain’s supreme court jailed nine of Catalonia’s independence leaders for up to 13 years for holding the illegal vote, but tensions in the restive region show…
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