The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, yesterday condemned the decision of the Supreme Court to open criminal proceedings for terrorism against the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont and the ERC deputy Ruben Wagensberg, for their alleged involvement in the platform Democratic Tsunami, and assured that with this last step the high court “again crosses all imaginable limits”.
According to Aragonès, the decision of the Supreme Court, which comes in the middle of the final stretch of negotiations between the PSOE and Junts to unblock the amnesty law, is an attempt by the magistrates to “boycott” this rule and shows that there is “a part of the top of the judicial power that acts not with legal criteria, but with political criteria”, and that “does not apply justice, but repression”.
This is what the president expressed, first in a short note on Twitter and later in statements from the Espluga de Francolí, after the Supreme Court unanimously agreed to investigate Puigdemont because it considers that he exercised “absolute leadership” in Tsunami. The magistrates do not doubt that the events fit into a crime of terrorism, contrary to the criteria of the Prosecutor’s Office, and they collect at least a dozen sentences of street terrorism to consolidate their doctrine on this crime. They are already announcing that they will summon the former president and Wagensberg “in order to listen to them as investigated”.
Aragonès described this decision of the Supreme Court as “arbitrary, unfair and illegitimate action” and assured that the court “once again enters into partisan politics”. As he said, “this is the reason why the court has decided to charge what are simple protests with terrorism, to prevent the amnesty law that should allow repression to be turned over”.
As part of this statement, the president took the opportunity to send an implicit message to Junts, who a month ago voted against the proposed amnesty law in Congress, precisely to force it to withdraw from the text that cases of terrorism they were not amnestied, while the PSOE is adamant in maintaining this point. “This amnesty law is more necessary than ever”, rushed Aragonès, who stressed that he expects its approval “soon”.
