The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, affirmed this Friday that the indictment of the Prosecutor's Office against Josep Maria Jové, Lluis Salvadó and Natàlia Garriga for the preparations for 1-O, is "further proof of what the Government We have always said that the events that occurred in 2017 in Catalonia were crimes in 2017 and continue to be crimes in 2023",
Along these same lines, he has opined that who should be questioned today is those who said that with the reform of the Penal Code these acts were "decriminalized". For Bolaños it is "evident" that they continue to be a crime.
On the other hand, the PSC spokesperson, Alicia Romero, has shown her "respect and support" to Salvadó and Jové, with whom she maintains a "cordial relationship" and for whom she feels "affection", and has defended their "presumption of innocence".
Junts per Catalunya has criticized that the "only response" of the State for Catalonia is to "increase repression". "They criminalize 1-O even more, far from what the PSOE promised", has reproached the party's general secretary, Jordi Turull. The leader of the formation believes that this movement by the Prosecutor's Office reinforces the concept of an Objectively Identifiable Group -which was recently introduced by the European Court of Justice-, which "helps" the "hopes" that they have placed on the front of Europe.
Turull has once again appealed to the unity of the independence movement, considering that it is the "only way" to "confront" with a State that is "in the hands of the judges and the Prosecutor's Office."
