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Statements by the Spanish ambassador to Athens, made in an interview with a Sunday newspaper concerning the Catalan issue have sparked the foreign minister's intense reaction.

Spain's Ambassador to Greece Enrique Viguera said he was "shocked and surprised" by Wednesday's incident at the embassy, when the self-proclaimed anarchist group Rouvikonas barged into the embassy's premises to protest the violence during the Catalonian referendum vote on October 1.