Yesterday's day will be remembered as the moment when independence rekindled the insurrection against democracy. Once again the political power and a social activism that takes off the mask to openly degenerate into terrorism return to act in unison to undermine the foundations of the rule of law . It is about relaunching, with new virulence, another subversive autumn like that of 2017. They no longer even bother to defend the supposed peaceful nature of sovereignty. Now the president of the Generalitat and the parties on which his Government relies come out in defense of those prosecuted for terrorism, sent by the judge to prison under the grave accusation of planning attacks as a means of precipitating the achievement of the republic. When that decision was known, there was anger in the Parliament; but who was expelled by President Torrent was Carlos Carrizosa , spokesman for Citizens. It is impossible not to remember the days of September 2017, when the rights of the opposition were crushed by the separatist roller. But such an exercise of despotism is even more embarrassing today, because it is born from a maneuver to legitimize the terrorist threat that begins to loom over Catalonia, according to the National Court itself.

Those who minimized the effects of years of indoctrination in schools and the media were mistaken, with an ideology focused on hatred of Spain and the ferment of frustration generated by the failure of the process. The repeated challenge to the State and contempt for the rules of democracy have created the breeding ground for the emergence of terrorism in Catalonia. Against this, instead of hiding the evidence as the Generalitat does with an incalculable irresponsibility, it is only possible to respond with determination with all the instruments of the rule of law .

Catalonia offers symptoms of having taken the reverse path to the tour of the Basque Country . The Spanish democracy managed to defeat ETA after four decades of abject trajectory. Catalan nationalism is pulverizing any hint of its hypothetical pactist will. Symptoms of confrontation have accumulated for several years, but the detention of seven members of the so-called Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR) constitutes a qualitative leap that should activate all institutional alarms. They are accused of terrorism and possession of explosives - in application of article 573 of the Criminal Code - and Judge García Castellón yesterday issued provisional prison for all of them. The Prosecutor's Office accuses them of finalizing terrorist actions for the next 1-O anniversary.

We are not, therefore, faced with violent coercions such as those carried out by the CoRs on previous occasions, but before a direct terrorist threat. In this context, that Torra continues to present these groups as a "pacifist movement" is nothing more than a way to whiten violence to achieve political objectives. If this is added to the Mossos plan - instrumented by the Government - in the State-Generalitat Security Commission and the resolutions of the Parliament that urge to expel the Civil Guard of Catalonia and release the prisoners, it is clear that the Generalitat continues installed in the rupturismo and the illegality. Instead of addressing the Civil Guard, as Fernando Grande-Marlaska did for the operation carried out against the CDRs, what Sanchez's government must do is articulate the necessary measures to deal with independence, which no longer only raises an institutional pulse but a security challenge. The priority now is not only to politically combat independence, but to tackle the incipient terrorist threat. 155 seems more inevitable today than yesterday.

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