Two years after a referendum that should have led to Catalonian independence, the region not only remains part of Spain, but due to the referendum being illegal under Spanish constitution, the leaders of the independence movement were jailed for up to 13 years last month. Violence in the streets ensued after the verdict was published. Bernat Pous, Catalonian student and volunteer for one of the pro-independence organisations, offers us a look on the pro-independence arguments, explains what life was like in Catalonia under the regime of the fascist dictator Franco, or how sleeping in a school helps a state hold an election.