Ruben Wagensberg has decided to move to Switzerland to protect himself from the attacks of the Spanish justice system with the cause of Tsunami Democràtic. According to RAC1, the Republican Left deputy for the Parliament of Catalonia is in Geneva to seek advice from organizations and lawyers who will help him in his case.
He does so before the latest legal pirouettes of Judge Manuel García-Castellón in the Tsunami Democràtic case, movements with which the magistrate has tried to support the accusation of terrorism. According to the messages intercepted by the Civil Guard, Wagensberg collaborated with the businessman and editor Oriol Soler to write some of the Tsunami communications and design his communication strategy.
In statements to the El Món program on RAC1, the member of the Parliament’s board said he was “panicked to return to Catalonia seeing how the situation is getting.” However, he clarified his desire to return. “I don’t want to be where I am: I want to go back and do my job with my family and friends, like everyone else.”
For some time now, Wagensberg had been distressed to see that the Spanish justice system had him in its sights. Faced with the story of the Tsunami cause, which he considers a fabrication from beginning to end, he decided to temporarily move to Geneva. There he is meeting with human rights organizations and also with international lawyers who are helping him prepare all the scenarios related to his case.
The decision was made at the beginning of January when he saw that García-Castellón’s machinery was going direct. That is why he has decided to stay, for now, in Geneva and resolve his case from there. Wagensberg, in fact, makes it clear that he is not in exile and that his party was aware of it. That he is not under investigation nor has he even been summoned to testify. That means that he could return today, since he does not have any type of legal impediment. “I have not gone into exile because I do not have any summons,” he insisted.
In addition, there is a personal and emotional component and that is that Manuel García-Castellón’s constant bombardment against him has caused him serious mental health problems. Wagensberg explains that repression has many faces and he needs to share that the news, articles and movements of the judge who continually appeared talking about him as if he were a terrorist have affected him.
For weeks he has been suffering from episodes and serious anxiety attacks that make him unable to do his job, at this point, as a deputy and member of the Parliament’s board. And they also make him unable to lead a normal life in his house. This is a compelling argument that has also led Wagensberg to want to isolate himself from everything and try to make the panic disappear and so that his mental health can improve outside of the media spotlight. “I want to finish my work here with the lawyers and the organizations, recover and come back.”
Wagensberg also spoke out regarding the Amnesty law that was stopped in Congress on Tuesday due to the refusal of Junts. “We have lost an opportunity to take another step to resolve the conflict through dialogue. Those who had a big party were the judges, which is what they wanted us to do: the law has been overturned and they have not done it. We have done it to them. work, we have fallen into their trap.
Likewise, he defended the Democratic Tsunami movement, “a massive and peaceful response from citizens” and blamed the State for “using the crime of terrorism to delegitimize peaceful movements.”
