Shifting to pay by CoR is not enough argument to be a "victim of terrorism"
- The Directorate General for the Protection of Victims of Terrorism consulted the Secretary of State for Security in writing if the persons affected by the increase in remuneration during the operation return of Easter 2018 could be considered victims of the terrorist organization. In the article signed by Jesús Rodríguez, from La Straight, it can be read that they have decided not.
On 10 April, the Civil Guard carried out an "anti-terrorist" macro-operation in several Catalan localities over which the arrest took place. Dozens of hooded agents stormed into the homes of Tamara Carrasco and Adrià Carrasco, accused of terrorism, rebellion and sedition, and caused several injuries. The reason for the operation was that the Defence Commission of the Republic (CoR) coordinated the remuneration of Catalonia during the Holy Week. The repeated definition of this act of civil disobedience as "terrorism" by the Government of Spain and various media determined, at least, that a citizen should contact the General Secretariat for the Protection of Victims of Terrorism, a section in the structure of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior, and request "the means to be a beneficiary as a victim". The agency processed the request on 11 April and requested the Secretary of State for Security to clarify "the possible terrorist nature of the facts under investigation".
Nine months later, on 9 January 2019, the answer has arrived. The CoR defines the facts as "savage (brutal) cuts" that occurred during last Holy Week, even though these actions did not cut roads or block cars. The goal was the opposite, that most people could go through those highways without paying.
The Secretary of State for Security, presided over by Ana botella Gómez, the right hand of Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has communicated the following: "These events in the Autonomous Community of Catalonia in the Holy Week of 2018, which you suffered, are being investigated by the competent territorial courts of that community as crimes of public disorder and not by the National Court as terrorism."
The Spanish Government has therefore concluded that these are not victims of terrorism "harmed" by the resumption of CoR's remuneration.
For its part, Abertis, the company that manages the motorways, has valued that it does not ask the CoR for the money it lost by raising the remuneration, which would generate more protests.
It should be remembered that Adrià Carrasco is exiled in Belgium because of this anti-terrorist operation and that Tamara Carrasco has been confined to his country for nine months, following a court order. "I live in a jail without a cell," the second said, in an interview with ARGIA.
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Walk from a train station, two friends and a hug. This hug will be frozen until the next meeting. I'll come home, he'll stay there. There, too, will be free the painful feeling that injustice wants us to catch. Jesús Rodríguez (Santa Coloma de Gramenet, 1974) is a journalist,... [+]
