Sunday, December 02, 2018

Conversation with Sànchez on the first day of the hunger strike: "This is serious. Not fireworks"

Sitting behind the glass of the Lledoners prison visiting room, Jordi Sànchez is serene, firm and convinced, ready to face a State that has closed them in prison and a Constitutional Court that tries to prevent its cause from reaching the European Court of Rights Humans With a history of activist, political and social struggles behind the back, the former president of the ANC and a deputy of JxCat has just begun a new pulse from his penitentiary cell: a hunger strike.

The decision is forceful. And it has a huge risk. However, Sanchez points out that it is not a leaping into the void, we do not want to emulate Bobby Sands, referring to the IRA militant who died in 1981, at age 27, after 66 days of hunger strike. "We do not intend to put our lives at risk. We have not gotten the understanding, "he says.


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