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Barcelona supporters will wave flags in the final of the Cup of Spain
They had been banned by the Government
The Government Delegation in Madrid, where the Cup final will be played, was denied entrance at the stadium with Catalan flags, arguing that incite violence as political symbols and their use by Catalan separatists. The Catalan club and Drets (Rights) association appealed the ban and Friday, a judge in Madrid agreed to allow entry into the stadium with Catalan flags because, in his opinion, has not been established that the ensigns incites violence.
But the ban passed the sports field and served for the Catalan independence parties make a common front against the Government of Spain. The president of the regional Government of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont announced he will not attend the match in protest against an "attack on the democratic principle of freedom of expression." Puigdemont said the rejection caused by prohibition "should serve the Spanish State to reflect exactly what democracy means and what model of relations that believes they should have with the citizens of Catalonia."
Neither the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, will attend the meeting, and its counterpart in Madrid, Manuela Carmena, who sympathized with she, she said Friday that if the mayor of Seville asks her to accompany, assist the stadium, not it will do otherwise. The mayor of Madrid has been criticized for this decision and from the Citizens party reproached the "frivolity" of not attending the stadium "by hanging out with friends" when institutional representative of Madrid.
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