Since the super-materialist 90s, when Spain was considered  the 7th most powerful industrialized country in the world, oblivious to the fact that the country's "successful" ego was based on a castle of cards built on corrupt, speculative real estate deals, manipulative Catalonian ( mostly corrupt) politicians like Pujol and Co. did -  and still  do - everything to get "independence" at any price: they were the ones behind attracting Pakistanis and Muslims to Catalonia, promising whatever... looking the other way on what was happening en El Raval and other places in Barcelona and the province per se,  in exchange for support, for  votes for an independent state. Those ( mostly) corrupt politician ( mama boys) are enshrined in the public service and media, where they did and do everything downgrading Spanish language in the public schools, dreaming that Catalan "is going to be a world language" (?) as English.