The Catalan Alliance breaks into the Fossar de les Moreres for the first time without incident.

BarcelonaThe Catalan Alliance was able to lay the floral offering at the Fossar de les Moreres for the first time without incident. Last year, the pro-independence left disrupted the far-right party's event when a hundred young anti-fascists burst in shouting and insulting, but this year the event took place without incident. The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan Police) deployed riot police at all entrances and blocked the passage of the forty members of Arran who wanted to access the Fossar. The young anti-fascists were only able to unfurl a banner on Passeig del Born reading "At the Fossar de les Moreres we bury the traitors, we turn the far right," while the event proceeded normally.

In fact, the only incident during the Fossar event occurred at the end. A group of supporters of the Catalan Alliance began heckling a TV3 journalist, shouting "TV3 manipulators," and the Catalan police had to move him a few meters away to prevent him from being attacked. The Mossos d'Esquadra also took journalist Cake Minuesa away after he appeared at the event and was surrounded by the same group that heckled the TV3 journalist.

Aside from these two specific incidents, the Islamophobic party held the event without any problems. In fact, with the goal of gathering the maximum number of supporters and activists of the party and putting on a show of force, the Catalan Alliance had organized up to four buses from different parts of the country to accompany its leader, Silvia Orriols, to the Fossar offering, and ended up gathering around 300 people.

Amid shouts of "Silvia Orriols, president" and "Silvia Orriols is the solution," the mayor of Ripoll gave a brief speech attacking the denationalization of Catalonia and calling for the creation of its own state. "We will be able to have our own national identity card, not what they impose on us," she emphasized. The party's candidate in Barcelona for the Catalan Parliament elections, Lluís Areny, was more forceful. "Now they're bombarding Barcelona with mass immigration," he said, amid shouts of "If you want to work, speak Catalan" and "Catalan Catalonia" from supporters, amid a wave of party flags and blue esteladas.

Applause at Junts, ERC booed

Shortly before 11 p.m., the Junts delegation, led by Secretary General Jordi Turull, and accompanied by the party's youth caucuses, landed at the Fossar. During his speech, the deputy leader of the Junts party called for "resistance and persistence" to achieve independence. "Today, Catalonia needs us all in the face of a process of denationalization with decrees from here and there, and a firm response is needed," he exclaimed before laying the wreath.

The ERC delegation's arrival at the Fossar was less peaceful, but without the virulence of other years. However, as in recent days, the Republicans were booed and hissed by many of the attendees, who called them "traitors" and "sellouts," while party members tried to soften the insults with applause. "Botiflers, botiflers" was one of the most chanted slogans by the crowd, which at midnight was still gathered at the Fossar, around two hundred people.