The Parliament's Bureau has approved and issued a note of support to the ERC deputy and fourth secretary of the Catalan Chamber, Ruben Wagensberg, after learning that the parliamentarian has decided to move to Switzerland to obtain legal advice on the accusation of terrorism that the judge maintains. of the Manuel García Castellón National Court in the case of Democratic Tsunami. In the note, signed by the Republicans, Junts and the CUP, solidarity is expressed with the deputy in the face of the “unfounded accusations” against him, but the PSC has distanced itself from that statement.
The socialists express their distance with a note that maintains that Wagensber is being the subject of these “serious” judicial accusations “due to his pro-independence militancy and his defense of the right to self-determination,” and they prioritize “respect for judicial procedures,” although It is well known that socialists deeply disagree that the events described by García-Castellón are terrorism. In any case, the main opposition group wanted to express its "solidarity with the deputy" on a personal level.
The other three parties that are part of the governing body of the Parliament have wanted to express their support for the deputy who publicly assured that the reasons for leaving were political, given his "panic to return to Catalonia seeing how the judicial situation is getting." Thus, the Board highlights its defense of freedom of expression and "against the criminalization and persecution of democratic ideas, as well as against the repression of the defense and promotion of these ideas."
Although Wagensber said he does not consider himself an "exile" because he has not even been summoned by the judge nor does a firm accusation of a crime weigh against him, the Board warns that the parliamentarian “could have his “civil and political rights” threatened.
