As Catalans Voted, ‘Dying With Fear’ at High School Turned Polling Place<br />1, 2017<br />BARCELONA, Spain — At some point on Sunday afternoon, as riot police officers forced their way into<br />polling places all over the city, the Moisès Broggi high school in Barcelona became a fortress.<br />But many more remained open — Catalan officials said 2315 stations were ready for the vote —<br />and within them, volunteers and organizers tried to protect the ballot boxes, sometimes using diversionary tactics.<br />Mr. Mari said that They seem like medieval warriors — the helmet, the shield,<br />All day, at the Institut Moisès Broggi, an arts and technology magnet school, people watched video of raids carried<br />out nearby, in which officers smashed through glass doors with axes and dragged women downstairs by the hair.<br />At 5:57 a.m., an anonymous-looking young man in a black hooded sweatshirt slipped into the Moisès Broggi school building, and word got out<br />that he had brought the ballot boxes, which had been hidden overnight.<br />But the school stayed open, and by noon the line of voters wrapped around three sides of a city block, applauding people as they left.
