He was arrested on 28 February in Poland, near the border with Ukraine, in Poland. On that day, they allowed him to make a call to Nabarniz to tell his wife that she was in detention. Since then he has not been able to speak with his family, not even with his trusted lawyer.

Three days later, the Polish Government announced his arrest and the accusations against him: Belonging to the Russian military intelligence and “acting against the interests of Poland”. He also reported that he would be held in Rzeszów prison until 29 May.

Gonzalez’s environment has stated that the complaints against him are unfounded and that this situation of incommunication and the possibility of his lawyer being treated is contrary to European Union law, and have demanded the Spanish President, Pedro Sánchez, the Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albars, and the Defence Minister, Margarita Robles: “Listen to Pablo González as endorsed by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the NATO International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”

The following specific requests have also been made in the collection of signatures: That the incommunicado should cease; that he should be able to receive the legal advice of his trusted lawyer and to normalize communication between them in order to prepare the defence; that he should at least be able to speak on the telephone with his wives, children and parents and that the lack of information they live in should end; that his presumption of innocence should be respected; “and above all, that they should not leave our friend Paul in a country that does not take account of Europe’s regulations and human rights.”

Breaching European rules, incommunicado

Paul González is denied letters from around him: “The Polish Public Prosecutor’s Office has been putting all the bureaucratic obstacles it has been able to avoid contact, and the Spanish Government has not acted as an intermediary to alleviate this complex process. There has also been no contact between the attorney they appointed him and Paul, the only one he has received in the first 40 days of arrest is two visits from the Consul of Spain,” he explained.

They have denounced that this situation of incommunication and the impossibility of being treated by their lawyer infringe different laws of the European Union and the European Union.

Description of the name Pavel and the two passports

Gonzalez’s environment points out that “the evidence presented so far by Poland for the complaint is circumstantial and all related to Paul’s origin”.

They have reported that the journalist was born in Moscow and his name and surname is Pavel Alekseevich Rubtsov, who was killed in 1989. His father is a Russian citizen and his mother is also born in Russia, and is the daughter of a child sent to Russia fleeing the 1936 war.

When González was 9 years old, his parents separated and his mother came to Euskal Herria. A court there gave Paul Spanish nationality under the name of Paul (translated into the Russian name) and added the surname of his mother's father: González Yagüe. In Russia it still has names and surnames of origin and has two legal passports.