In no other country of the European Union is the rule of law so trampled upon as in Spain.
In no other country in the European Union are members of national minorities politically and legally persecuted to such an extent, driven into economic ruin, imprisoned as political prisoners, deposed as elected representatives of the people for exercising the fundamental right to freedom of expression, driven into exile and defamed in the country's mass media in a degrading manner.
No other country in the European Union has committed such massive human rights violations in recent decades as the Kingdom of Spain.
No other country in the European Union has challenged European jurisdiction as much as Spain.
No other country in the European Union has illegally imprisoned an elected MEP (Dr Oriol Junqueras), depriving him of his right to take up his mandate as a Member of the European Parliament.
No country other than Spain prosecutes MEPs with a politically motivated European Arrest Warrant.
No other country in the European Union than Spain, in a constitutional coup d'état from above, dissolved a democratically elected Parliament in 2017, deposed a democratically elected government and sentenced both the members of the government who were declared deposed and the President of the Parliament to long prison sentences with all the means of a recognisable unjust justice without a de facto legal basis with a court without jurisdiction under Spanish law, waiving a second instance.
While the political leaders of the European Union remain silent on this and by their silence tolerate and thus also support the destruction of the rule of law in Spain, the persecution of a minority and politically motivated sentences, all previous decisions of the judiciary of other European countries have clearly been in favour of the politically persecuted and against the Spanish state. Europe is silent and watching, but the European judiciary outside Spain has so far shown that it is working well, even if the majority of European politicians betray Catalonia, democracy and the rule of law, abandon the ideals of the European Union and lose any moral right to criticise other countries outside the European Union, as long as human rights violations on such a large scale in and by Spain are tolerated and supported by the European Union.
The Spanish Public Prosecutor's Office had bindingly declared to the highest European court that the European arrest warrants against three Members of the European Parliament — the legitimate Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, Prof. Dr. Clara Ponsatí and Toni Comín — were suspended as long as the ECJ was busy with the legal clarification of questions submitted to it by Pablo Llarena, a judge of the Spanish Supreme Court. As has now become known, Spain has nevertheless since tried to have the three MPs arrested in other European countries.
Pablo Llarena, who did not feel bound by the Spanish prosecution's statement to the ECJ, was instrumental in this. On 5 October 2021, the Spanish Constitutional Court, which is known to be politically occupied, confirmed Pablo Llarena's legal opinion and stated that the European arrest warrants against the three MEPs were still in force and to be executed, contrary to Spain's official notification to the ECJ. This is a slap in the face of Europe and European justice, which must have consequences for Spain if the European Union is to continue to exist in the long term.
At the instigation of judge Pablo Llarena, Catalan president-in-exile Carles Puigdemont was arrested in Sardinia on 23 September 2021, but was released unconditionally on 24 September 2021.
https://english.vilaweb.cat/noticies/exiled-catalan-president-puigdemont-is-set-free-in-sardinia/
As in the past, the Catalan was fully available to European justice and, after temporarily leaving Sardinia, appeared at the scheduled court date of 4 October 2021. As expected, the Italian court found that the European arrest warrant issued by Spain against the MEP was currently suspended. Carles Puigdemont left the court a free man.
Also present in Sardinia were the two other Catalan MEPs whom Spain is persecuting on political grounds. Although Pablo Llarena had asked Italy to arrest and extradite them to Spain on the basis of the European Arrest Warrants as well, Italy did nothing, as it believes, like Germany and other European Union countries, that these European Arrest Warrants are currently suspended. The three Catalan MEPs are allowed to move freely in all European Union countries except Spain. Only in Spain do they have to reckon with being arrested contrary to the law.
The leader of the Spanish right-wing conservative party Partido Popular, which is politically clearly to the right of, for example, the German AfD and works together with the German CDU/CSU in the European Parliament in a joint parliamentary group, Pablo Casado, said at an election campaign event of his party in València on 3 October 2021 that his party would bring the Catalan exile president Carles Puigdemont to Spain, even if it meant travelling to the last country in Europe. It can hardly be expressed more clearly that a representative of a national minority is to be persecuted by all means, although he has at no time evaded or escaped justice within the European legal framework. One might justifiably ask whether Pablo Casado is thinking of an armed task force to unlawfully abduct the Catalan MEP to Spain. Anyone who continues to cooperate politically with this man, with this party at the European level, and does not draw the consequences that decency, morality and the basic consensus on the rule of law demand of all upright democrats, should be ashamed of himself! The lawyer of the Catalan president in exile has presented the speech of Pablo Casado to the Italian court as proof of the political persecution of his client in and by Spain. This is exactly what it is. If the European Union continues to tacitly tolerate the political persecution of Catalan politicians and leaders of the Catalan nation and disregards the Catalan people's will for freedom, it will not last in the long run. It is not yet too late to turn back, the European Union could still decide in favour of freedom and respect for human rights and put Spain in its place.
But as before, Europe remains silent and does nothing!