JuntsxCat has strongly rejected the interruption of the minute of silence for the victims of the 17-A attacks, during the institutional act of tribute held this morning, which its president, Laura Borràs, has come to endorse by supporting the demonstrators who had concentrated to learn "the whole truth" about the attacks. An attitude that has made her worthy of harsh reproaches from members of other political forces, in particular from the ERC, and even from the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau.
The institutional act of homage to the victims, which marks five years this Wednesday, has been marred by a demonstration called by pro-independence platforms that consider that the contacts of the leader of the Ripoll cell, Imam Abdelbaki, were not investigated. Satty, with the CNI and they believe that the Spanish State is behind the 17-A attack. Throughout the event, held on La Rambla in Barcelona, some protesters have constantly interrupted its development with shouts and beeps. They have even broken the minute of silence for the victims. “Spain is a state of murderers! We want the truth, hypocrites!” was heard while playing El Cant dels ocells.
After finishing the event, Laura Borràs, who attended the event as president of Junts - the second vice president Assumpta Escarp attended the event on behalf of Parliament - approached the demonstrators to support their demands and was applauded and cheered with shouts of "president , president", which alluded to her status as president of the Parliament despite being suspended since July 28 when an oral trial was opened for embezzlement of public funds when she presided over the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes. Borràs, who has not resigned from her post, has used her account as President of the Parliament to record her attendance at the event.
A few hours after the end of the act, Junts has distanced himself from the protest and on his Twitter account has expressed his "strongest rejection" of the interruption of the minute of silence after "reiterating his support" for the victims and their families.
A position that contrasted with that of the former president of the Generalitat and Junts and now president of the Consell per la República and MEP, Carles Puigdemont, who in a thread about the attacks wrote today that "the best tribute we can pay and the greatest respect we we can have towards the victims and their families is to know the whole truth". However, Puigdemont himself has retweeted the party's message.
The one who has stood up to the protest has been the former general secretary of Junts, Jordi Sànchez, who has made it clear that today "there should not have been more prominence than that of the relatives of the victims". "It was neither the place to break the minute of silence nor the moment to seek political prominence", has sentenced the one who was president of the ANC when the attacks were perpetrated. "I'm sorry. Like this, no!", He has concluded.
In any case, the attitude of Borràs, who has continued to accompany the protesting group to the European Commission delegation in Barcelona to ask the European institutions to investigate the attacks, has earned him reproaches from different parties.
The mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, without wanting to personalize her criticism, has asked that events such as those of today "never happen again" and has considered that using the boycott of the minute of silence "in a partisan way" seems to her "the last straw of shame."
For her part, the mayor of Esquerra Republicana in the Barcelona City Council, Elisenda Alamany, has said on her Twitter account that it turns her stomach that a minute of silence cannot be respected for the victims of an attack and in allusion to Borràs He added that "with those who pay and encourage this little sensitivity because they believe that their causes are above the loss of someone you love, not even in the corner."
Along the same lines, the ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has pointed out that "not respecting a minute of silence in memory of the victims of an attack is miserable. And making political profit from it is despicable.
