Guardia Civil had just left. They had broken down the door of the health centre and attacked people with batons. There were a lot of older people crying ... We spoke to a local councillor who said that when the Guardia Civil came to take the ballot boxes, he asked them for a warrant, and they just pushed him out of the way." - Meaning and context.">
"Joanna Cherry: "'Palpable sense of fear' on Barcelona streets" The Scotsman (4 October 2017)
• Cherry acted as one of international observers during the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and was invited by Diplocat, the public diplomacy council of Catalonia, but Diplocat was not recognised as an international observer by the UN. In September, it had been suspended by the Constitutional Court of Spain and the High Court of Justice of Catalonia had issued orders for the police to prevent the illegal referendum.
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We then went to a smaller town, Sant Andreu de la Barca, to a health centre, and when we arrived the Guardia Civil had just left. They had broken down the door of the health centre and attacked people with batons. There were a lot of older people crying ... We spoke to a local councillor who said that when the Guardia Civil came to take the ballot boxes, he asked them for a warrant, and they just pushed him out of the way.

— Joanna Cherry

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "We then went to a smaller town, Sant Andreu de la Barca, to a health centre, and when we arrived the Guardia Civil had just left. They had broken down the door of the health centre and attacked people with batons. There were a lot of older people crying ... We spoke to a local councillor who said that when the Guardia Civil came to take the ballot boxes, he asked them for a warrant, and they just pushed him out of the way." in the context of ""Joanna Cherry: "'Palpable sense of fear' on Barcelona streets" The Scotsman (4 October 2017)
• Cherry acted as one of international observers during the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and was invited by Diplocat, the public diplomacy council of Catalonia, but Diplocat was not recognised as an international observer by the UN. In September, it had been suspended by the Constitutional Court of Spain and the High Court of Justice of Catalonia had issued orders for the police to prevent the illegal referendum." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Joanna Cherry

About Joanna Cherry

Joanna Catherine Cherry KC (born 18 March 1966) is a Scottish politician and barrister who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh South West from 2015 to 2024. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), she was the party's Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice in the House of Commons from 2015 to 2021.