Catalan President, Carles Puigdemont (L), greets sympathizers as he arrives to the Sant Julià de Ramis school in Girona, where he was initially planned to vote, in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, on 01 October 2017. Puigdemont was scheduled to vote in Sant Julia de Ramis but he had to change of polling center at the last moment after the police forces seized the ballot boxes set for the Catalan independence referendum. Meanwhile, National Police officers and Civil guards have been deployed to prevent the people from entering to the polling centers and vote in the Catalan independence referendum, that has been banned by the Spanish Constitutional Court. The police action has provocked clashes between pro-independence people and the police forces. Catalan independence referendum !ACHTUNG: NUR REDAKTIONELLE NUTZUNG!