Laporta made manipulative or appeasing gestures, which are produced by touching something. The lawyer and professor of non-verbal communication, José Luis Martin Ovejero, says Laporta was "very brave or very unconscious" The psychologist María Jesús Álava Reyes sees in that rubbing of hands a way to free yourself from sweating, as well as your "constant hyperventilation" or that you wet your lips: "It is a sign of anxiety"