http://bit.ly/2fHhpMk Catalonia's top envoy to the European Union says the credibility and the reputation of the European Commission has eroded in the wake of an independence from Spain bid on Sunday. "Speaking about violence in general but not specifying what kind of violence and who is mainly responsible for this violence and drawing political conclusions from it, is disappointing," Amadeu Altafaj said. The EU commission had released a statement on Monday, a day after Catalonia's referendum poll, amid scenes of Spanish riot police beating people attempting to vote in Barcelona and elsewhere in the region. The commission statement noted that "violence can never be an instrument in politics" without specifying who was behind it. Catalonia says 893 people had been injured, some seriously.
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