The number two of ERC sees the suspicions of not returning to Catalonia confirmed

Marta Rovira has never been clear about returning to Catalonia.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
06 November 2023 Monday 10:43
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The number two of ERC sees the suspicions of not returning to Catalonia confirmed

Marta Rovira has never been clear about returning to Catalonia. Not even when the crime of sedition in the Penal Code was repealed in December of last year. "I don't feel that I have the guarantees to return", he said a month later. The general secretary of ERC went on to be investigated for disobedience, which only carries penalties of disqualification. But in his public statements from Switzerland he made it clear that he was sniffing something, since at the time the cause of the Democratic Tsunami was secret to the National Court. She feared that the judges would incriminate her beyond 1-O. A few days ago, the Civil Guard sent a report to the judge in which it pointed out the leader at the head of the platform that led the post-sentence protests in 2019. Yesterday, magistrate Manuel García-Castellón charged her.

Rovira said yesterday to RTVE: "We have learned to make decisions when they are tangible (...) We have learned to manage a lot of uncertainty", he said before learning of yesterday's court decision as a summary of his non-return. He also published a series of tweets in which he assured that the amnesty put an "end to the first phase of resolving the political conflict".

However, his situation, like that of Carles Puigdemont, even if an amnesty is approved with the assumption that it will spare those accused of terrorism without having caused deaths, may not have been resolved: the judge explains in the letter that "will have to investigate whether the death at the airport of a cardiac arrest of a French citizen after walking three kilometers to board on October 14, 2019, during one of the Tsunami protests, "results objectively imputable to those responsible for the organization".