In the midst of the debate on the Amnesty law, Ciudadanos has found in the investigation of a Barcelona court into alleged Russian interference during the independence process to try to destabilize a country in the European Union an argument with which to reaffirm its opposition to “impunity.” ” of the leaders of the “coup against democracy” that occurred in September and October 2017 in Catalonia.
From the Parliament, Carlos Carrizosa has demanded that those “very serious facts” be investigated and that the “mantle of silence” that, in his opinion, the amnesty will entail not be cast over them. “They want to leave us without knowing who from the offices was directing the riots and the attacks on the police,” exclaimed the president of Ciudadanos in Catalonia.
In this sense, Carrizosa has demanded that “Carles Puigdemont’s pacts with the Russian secret services be clarified”, a hypothesis that has returned to the political news following the latest ruling by Judge Joaquín Aguirre, which ensures that the Kremlin offered military support. to the Government of Catalonia after the referendum on October 1 and the unilateral declaration of independence on October 27, 2017.
For Ciudadanos, at a time when the defense ministries of most of the countries of the European Union are asking for more resources and warning of the possibility of Russian aggression extending beyond Ukraine, the European Parliament must be interested in the circumstances that at the zenith of the process led the regime of Vladimir Putin, which Carrizosa has described as a “satrap”, to try to influence Catalonia to destabilize Spain and, in turn, Europe.
“Puigdemont would be a pariah in Europe, as he was before, if it were not for the fact that Pedro Sánchez has rehabilitated him to secure Junts’ seven votes in Congress,” said the leader of Ciudadanos in Catalonia, who has denounced the “silence ” of the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, on the matter: “Is Mr. Puigdemont legitimized to return to Catalan politics?”, he urged him to respond.
The European Citizens initiative, which is coordinated with the PP in its opposition to the amnesty in the European Parliament, has materialized in letters sent by the MEP Maite Pagazaurtundua to the high representative of Foreign Policy, the socialist Josep Borrell, and to the commissioner of Justice, Didier Reynders, and the vice president of Values ??and Transparency, Vera Jourová, both from the liberal group of the European Chamber, to demand a specific debate in Brussels.
“Any attempt to undermine the rule of law in a member country implies our common response, and in any case, avoid policies of impunity or amnesty that erase, avoid or minimize judicial investigation and the corresponding penalties,” Pagazaurtundua writes in his letter, in which he recalls that Judge Aguirre has extended the investigation of the Voloh case for six months to continue with the proceedings in which the alleged diversion of public funds to the independence process and Puigdemont’s contacts with Putin’s entourage are traced to “try to forge a strategic alliance at the heart of the European Union”.