“These six years of fighting for freedom of expression have been worth it.” The rapper Valtònyc arrived this Sunday in Mallorca after more than five years in exile in Brussels. His family and fifty people have come to welcome him at the airport, where the singer has shown his support for Carles Puigdemont and the rest of the exiled politicians in Brussels. “They deserve as much as I do or more to return home,” he said. He has also remembered Pablo Hassel.
The rapper has regretted that his return to Spain is possible because the sentence has expired and not because there has been a recognition of the “error” committed by the Spanish authorities. “Spain has not criticized itself and has not accepted that it is making a mistake by condemning singers; there is a failure in its democratic system regarding freedom of expression,” he said.
“The past is something to learn, not to regret. Surely I have made many mistakes but today I have the friends I have, my family appreciates me and looks at me with pride,” he assured.
He has announced that he will appear at the pending trial on the 21st, “as I have always done both here and in Belgium”, although he has admitted that he is nervous about what may happen. He did not want to go into depth assessing the fact that the notification of the statute of limitations for his crimes arrived six months late, although he has pointed out that the normal thing for a sentence is that it is notified as soon as it is signed.
“I’m going to enjoy my family, my friends, the food, because in Belgium you don’t eat as well as in Mallorca,” he said. “It’s time to love, to breathe, to feel myself and to take advantage of my friends and breathe the air of the Tramuntana, which I missed very much,” he added. Finally, he warned of the very authoritarian drifts “that are being seen in Europe.” The world in general should engage in self-criticism,” he added.
The rapper has explained that he will stay to live in Belgium, where in recent years he has completed a master’s degree in software engineering, but that his desire is to travel because he has not been able to do so since he was 18 years old and they took away his passport.
