Recently there have been a lot of news regarding the police involvement in the Catalan independence referendum, where 2 people were seriously injured. Have there been any polls in "mainland" Spain regarding the recent intervention and the general question of using force to subdue the secession movement?
I presume most non-Catalans don't support the secession in the first place, but it's not clear if they support harsh measures from the government in Madrid.
There's been indeed polls about it. I could find one in the Spanish digital newspapers El Español and the results are a bit shocking: as many Spanish people agree and do not agree with the use of force. However, in Catalonia there are 8 times more people against it. And, in fact, if you substract Catalan people from the Spanish overall, there is a 50% of people in favour of them, while less than 40% are not.
Numbers come from a poll on 800 people: 400 living in Catalonia and 400 living somewhere else in Spain.
From El 46% de los españoles rechaza las cargas policiales del 1-O y el 44% las aprueba, that is: 46% of Spanish people are against police charges from 1-O and 44% agree with them.
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Going through all the results on the poll Un 61% de españoles, pero sólo el 30% de catalanes, "aprueba" el mensaje del Rey that is, 61% of Spanish, and just 30% of Catalans, "agree" with King's message reveal other interesting details, such as 61% of Catalans seeing King's message as something that has weakened his position, while less than 30% thinks it got stronger.
when half of Spanish agree on police fighting people who prevents the police from doing their jobs. FTFY, you are welcome. Excessive or not (there is a judicial inquiry in progresss), the fighting took place when people tried to oppose the police, it is not as if the police were hitting people at random...