This Tuesday morning, by court order, the Ripoll City Council removed the estelada that was hanging on the balcony of the town hall.
The contentious court number 3 of Girona last Saturday sent a request to the City Council so that, once the notification was received, within a maximum period of 24 hours it would hang the Spanish flag from the façade of the town hall and remove the estelada.
The judicial decision was motivated by a request from the Impulso Ciudadano entity. Sources from the council have explained that, for the moment, the City Council will not hang the Spanish flag since it does not have one and they have had to order it expressly and it will take a few days to arrive.
In a tweet on the 'X' network (formerly Twitter), the mayor of Ripoll, Sílvia Orriols, criticized the decision on Saturday. "While the Spanish government feigns democratic normality and boasts of coordinated and well-established plurinationality, its judicial apparatus forces me to hang a Spanish flag on the façade of City Hall, under penalty of disqualification." "We are, despite appearances, a colony," she lamented.
The Ripoll City Council, governed by the far-right party Aliança Catalana, already had to remove the estelada from the town hall by order of the Electoral Board during the general election campaign on July 23.
