With just hours to go until their date with destiny, supporters of Catalan independence have staged a final rally ahead of this weekend's banned referendum on breaking away from Spain.
Central government has confiscated voting slips and other materials to try to halt a ballot it says is illegal, insisting it won't go ahead.
But the thousands who gathered in Barcelona for the end-of-campaign gathering were defiant.
"Today we won, because they did not know us and still don't know us," Catalonia…
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