Spanish King Taunted by Catalan Separatists at Ceremony for Terror Attack Victims
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King Felipe VI of Spain and Queen Letizia of Spain arrive at a commemoration ceremony on the first anniversary of the Barcelona and Cambrils terror attacks in Barcelona, Spain on August 17, 2018.
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Felipe VI of Spain revisited of one of the most uncomfortable moments of his reign in Barcelona on Friday as part of efforts to show a degree of normalcy has returned to Catalonia after last year’s separatist crisis.
Felipe attended a ceremony to commemorate the victims of last year’s terrorist attacks in Catalonia that left 16 people dead. Pro-independence campaigners hoisted a banner in English in Barcelona’s Catalunya Square saying the king wasn’t welcome but the commemoration of those killed in the attacks passed off largely without incident.
Last time he was there the tragedy took a back seat to politics.
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It has to be in bad taste to disrupt something like this; and that is a different issue and question than whether they should have independence in Catalonia.
