How Catalan protest tactics are inspired by Hong Kong

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The use of messaging app Telegram by Catalan separatists was 'directly' copied from the Hong Kong protests.

From blocking airports to using encrypted messaging apps, Catalan separatists demonstrating against the jailing of nine of their leaders are openly copying tactics devised by pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong.

The app made it possible for protestors to download a boarding pass for an afternoon flight so they could get through airport security checks. "Hong Kong gave the example of how to give global attention to a local conflict," Jordi Barbeta, a columnist with daily Catalan newspaper El Nacional wrote in an opinion piece last month.

Online messaging services like Telegram"guarantee the reliability and the confidence of users," ANC national secretary Jordi Vilanova told AFP.Sometimes Catalan separatist simply use the same fliers handed out in Hong Kong. A Catalan separatist group set up in August even started using yellow hardhats just as protestors do in Hong Kong and called itself"Cascos grocs" in Catalan or"Yellow hats".

 

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