In Spain “we know perfectly well what is terrorism and what is not”. This was the sentence of the first vice-president of the Government, María Jesús Montero, one day after the Supreme Court (TS) opened a case for terrorism against Carles Puigdemont for the facts attributable to Democratic Tsunami in the protests after the sentence of the process . The PSOE minister said this during a visit to the DFactory building of the Consorci de la Zona Franca de Barcelona.
His response comes after the Supreme Court, which in addition to the former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia is also investigating the deputy in the ERC Parliament Rubén Wagensberg, indicated in its resolution that “the statement that emerges in some politicians and the media that only “the actions of ETA or Jihad deserve to be treated as terrorism is incompatible with the definition of terrorism derived from the current article 573 of the Penal Code.”
In a more prudent sense, like the one his party had shown during the last few hours, Montero has also clarified that “the Government respects the work of justice” although his words have been interpreted as some disagreement with the interpretation of the Supreme Court.
In any case, María Jesús Montero has maintained that the Supreme Court’s decision “does not cause interference” in the lengthy negotiations on the Amnesty Law with Junts, Puigdemont’s party, which are still pending reaching a successful conclusion. “We are going to continue working,” Montero added about a law that she considered “essential to turn the page.”
