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  1. Merkel phoned Rajoy on #1Oct and told him Europe could not accept the police brutality, according to the state's human rights ombudsman. This was long rumoured, since the attacks suddenly stopped in the early afternoon for no apparent reason. @ScotNational/1007698504645349376
    1. …in reply to @jimkennedy
      The significance of this is that it gives the lie to the official EU line that the crackdown in Catalonia was an entirely internal Spanish matter and therefore the EU couldn't interfere. The EU did interfere, and rightly so. If only it had continued to do so in the aftermath.