The crime of sedition, as the Schleswig-Holstein court revealed, has no equivalent in our environment. It comes from archaic times. Thought to avoid force blows, it was legally forced to abort the independence revolt. It was highly exaggerated (although much desired in Spain) to apply the crime of sedition (which implies violence) to high-voltage political events, but peaceful. Nothing to do, let's say, with the noise of the yellow vests, which caused deaths, injuries and great damage. Macron did not take his leaders to court; he channeled the tensions into politics.
Pérez de los Cobos, president of the Constitutional between 2013 and 2017, had taken advantage of a resolution of the High Court to remember that it was up to politics to resolve the conflict. But Rajoy passively subcontracted the problem to the judges. Meanwhile, Junqueras and Puigdemont, emulating James Dean, excited by TV3 and applauded by the bases of Òmnium and the ANC, competed to see who was the most foolish driving the car into the ravine. Game of chicken. It was a bluff, someone said later.
To start over, a way out had to be found for the prisoners. They've all had it for a long time: pardon. Bravo. The Puigdemont case remains to be resolved. Now, does eliminating by law the crime of sedition deflate? In Spain, it will be a very divisive legal change, although useful to Sánchez and Aragonès (or should we say Junqueras?). It will be a stupid change, moreover, because, in the hands of which government and prosecutor, the new law will end up punishing any form of opposition in the street with prison. But above all it is disturbing, since it gives political priority to those who have led us to disaster; while leaving everyone's Catalonia with no room for negotiation. The cost of this law will be so high that there will be no room to solve the original problems: a) the question of taxation and b) the anomaly of the Statute, cut after a legal referendum.
An exchange of trading cards between weak parties and governments does not deflate Catalonia; but it inflames Spain. It is like the birth of the mountains. When something great was expected, politics has given birth to a mouse. Something ridiculous. Even petty, because it responds to a stark selfishness.
