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Catalan minister Toni Comín has responded to Spain's foreign affairs minister, Josep Borrell, who this Monday brought up to the EU Foreign Affairs Council the Catalan referendum and those injured that day when discussing fake news.

 

The minister started a thread by sharing the official report on the injuries from the day of the referendum. It was published in Catalan, Spanish and English and is available at the end of the page Comín links to in his tweet.

Translation: In this report it explains in all detail (all the detail allowed by data protection rules) how many people were attended to, where, what the diagnosis was and how serious the injuries were.

If I were a doctor in the Catalan health system, I would want to know whether when minister Josep Borrell talks about "fake news" he's questioning the rigour of the professionals who diagnose the patients who arrive in their surgeries, which this report is based on.

If I were one of the more than 1000 people attended to by the health services during those days (1st to 4th October 2017), I would find it to be a grave lack of respect that a minister of the government of the state I belong to should put into doubt the injuries I suffered.

 

Finally, if I were a PSOE voter, I would ask myself why minister Josep Borrell is acting, as regards those injured and attended to on 1st October, in exactly the same way the senior PP officials have done from the start, October 2017. Is PP his point of reference?