19.03.2014 - 11:03
The Catalan National Assembly is in the crosshairs. That’s how the president of the group, Carme Forcadell, sees it, after the accusatory and threatening editorials in ABC and El País and the declarations of Ciutadans’ candidate Juan Carlos Girauta. “The ANC forms part of the process and we know that at any moment, we can be in the cross-hairs, we knew that one day it might end up happening,” said Forcadell in an interview with TV3. Now, she added, she is afraid that the group could be illegalized, but she said that for the moment, she doesn’t have any direct evidence that anyone has asked that she be investigated.
Yesterday, the former director of Barcelona daily La Vanguardia, José Antich, said that he had heard that leaders of the ruling PP had asked the Ministry of Justice to urge the prosecutor’s office to investigate the ANC in order to illegalize it. According to Forcadell, those that accuse the Assembly of fomenting a coup “either haven’t read the roadmap or they are distorting it”. She made it clear that “all of the possibilities proposed in the roadmap are democratic and peaceful”.
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