Manuel Valls justifies his absence in the final photo of the demonstration in which Abascal was.
If the Mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, warned on Saturday by letter to the leaders of the European institutions that the judgment of the procés could have consequences for Europe; the mayoral candidate of Barcelona, Manuel Valls, wanted to reply to the mayor and give his own version.
With a letter addressed to the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, and the president of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani; Valls denounces the "lies of separatism" and regrets that the mayor joins the "propaganda campaign" of the independence movement to "discredit Spanish democracy."
Valls transfers to Juncker the "concern" for the "use" that he believes the independence movement will make of the trial and maintains that the version of the Catalan political situation that Colau contributed is "biased and false".
For the former French prime minister, the goal of the mayor to support the story of the pro-independence is "pave and prepare their pacts with the secessionists" to "stay" as the mayor of the city.
The letter to Juncker maintains that the lie has been "one of the main tools of the nation-building process that the Catalans have been suffering for decades" and adds that now it "has crossed borders" in order to "intoxicate international public opinion "
All in all, Valls gives his own account of the facts. On the one hand, it sustains that the independence leaders are in provisional prison because the Supreme Court sees the risk of flight and bases this vision on the fact that Puigdemont is "fled from justice". In addition, he maintains that "the attitude of rebellion persists in the prisoners", as well as "the will to extend disobedience to the law to his followers".
He also considers that the leaders of the procés have "tried to impose their arbitrary will", "fractured Catalan society" and have "seized institutions and public spaces with their propaganda", in addition to promoting "a Catalan identity policy with attitudes and political criteria that slide sometimes towards racism. "
Valls goes further and crosses out the pro-independence project of "oligarchic, illiberal, unsupportive and identitary" and equates it with "more harmful political tendencies". The candidate believes that the independence leaders "disguise" themselves as "pacifists" but bet on "the imposition of ideas", so they receive the "support and understanding of the xenophobic parties, of people convicted of terrorist acts or of the ultra right ".
After stating that the current Spain has nothing to do with the Franco dictatorship and stress that the Spanish State is one of the most decentralized; Valls ends up ruling that what happened in September and October of 2017 was a "blow to a liberal democratic State of Law" and that "those who attacked Spain were at the same time attacking Europe".
Valls concludes the letter assuring that with Juncker they know each other "for a long time", and that if he has decided to write these lines it is because he believes that the president of the Commission must "know the truth of what is currently happening in Spain".
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