What is your case?
Having archived the case prospectively, and on the verge of the deadline for appeal, the Manresa Prosecutor’s Office has appealed and we are now awaiting the resolution of the three crimes that were charged to me as a result of the Civil Guard’s false complaint.
A year has passed. How are you?
Thanks to people's support, OK. Thousands of people lay the noses of clowns and the solidarity they express gives hope. I have to confess that at first I feared that mobilisation would be disabled, but it is clear that mobilisation will take a long time.
It's been a year past with the civil guards since you put on your clown nose. What reading do you do?
I never imagined that the Spanish State would prosecute me for having made the same symbolic protest in 1993 with a soldier on the Bosnian border, for having put my nose of clown against the cry of peace and the use of weapons. From the point of view, the most important lesson is that this type of peaceful symbolic initiatives is essential, but cannot be done without taking into account the consequences it entails.
Do you regret it?
Not at all would I do it again. But, as is the context in Catalonia, it is essential to act with advice and protection in every way.
The police aggression of 1 October would come later. Did you expect it?
On the night I followed the records, I had the feeling that they were going to crash into me. I had not received any death threats until then, and that night I received thousands of them from the Civil Guard Forum, which is now considered illegal. That is true, what I did not expect was for the police to start beating the citizens. It was terrible.
They first attacked the school that Carles Puigdemont was voting on, and the second one was yours. Why?
Because it was me. He later confirmed the command of the Civil Guard that came to my people. They were looking for the revenge of having put their clown noses, and they've done it.
The fascist attacks on the right to decide have marked the summer. What do you think?
The aggressions have not been many, but they have been savage. In my case, I have suffered two kinds of attacks. On the one hand, until now I was very dear to the people and lately I have been screaming many neighbours. On the other hand, physical attacks have also been imposed, which have caused kilometric retentions. When the political prisoners were taken to Lledoners prison, for example, a CoR boy was attacked and the aggressors are calm and free.
What is the key to preventing such attacks?The pacifist movement
in Catalonia will also be able to stop these fascist attacks. We live in the last out-of-date sparks of the Spanish State. They would like to tear our necks off with the same aggressiveness that takes away the yellow ties. I recommend that you take independence as a model and make it more creative to make your fascist demands.
Unfortunately, its cause is not the only one. Valtonyc will not be extradited. Once again,
the lack of capacity of the Spanish justice system has become apparent. In Spain, ideas are being harassed and the Valtonyc case is nothing more than a blunt attack on freedom of expression, something that is not the same in the dictatorship. In any event, it is good news that European justice has begun to put out of play what is happening in Spain.
To what extent does the change of government in Spain that supported your party benefit?The
motion of censure was good news for Spain, but not for Catalonia. Sanchez is better than Rajoy, but the socialists will be captive. With the steps taken so far it is clear that pp has made a crackdown without covering his face and that, on the contrary, the PSOE has covered it.
What will happen from now on?We have needed time
to take action, in the autumn we will organise endless peaceful events. There are two options, the increase in violent repression that has not been seen in the last 70 years or the constitution of the Catalan Republic. And I would dare to say that we are going to build the Catalan Republic closer than we think.
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