Already during the hearing, what happened on September 20 before the Ministry of Economy acquired an excessive importance. There it was, that is true, in all its splendor, the tumultuary uprising that led to sedition . However, the zero zone of the process was another and another is also the day when the coup ephemeris would have to be located.

Now that the process is over, it is important to remember the fundamentals of the process . So much has been emphasized in the media employed by the seditious ones - even the condemnation pays more attention to the methodology than to the teleology - that any clueless person might still think that his ends were noble.

He wanted to declare foreigners to the Spaniards in Catalonia . It was one of those heartbreaking projects that have stained the recent history of Europe with tragedy. It should be remembered, more now that the official account has assumed the thesis of the farce. The normal thing - and this is a historical criterion, neither political nor legal - is that a massive foreignization, frustrated or not, ends in tragedy.

This is one of those exotic occasions in which a defendant confesses the facts that are imputed to him and a court calls him a fake. Oriol Junqueras wanted to go down in history as a liberator and Justice has portrayed him as a harlequin. It is a somewhat risky way to defend the constitutional order but not at all new. There is a long political tradition that fights, that is, nationalism through the infantilization of the nationalist . Thus, when Artur Mas, no less than in 2007, warned that the newly approved Statute was no more than a passing station towards the manifest destiny of Catalonia, the general interpretation was that it was a watermark.

The process was not accompanied by the necessary instrumental violence to be considered a rebellion, says the sentence. What was there was the instrumental idiocy of independence, which is what allows it to claim that its tactical deployments are a happening , but always after they have failed.

The zero zone of the process was the Parliament of Catalonia and the ephemeris of the coup, on September 6. It was then that the people of Catalonia were declared sovereign subject or, said in the most exact negative terms, when the Spaniards were denied the right to decide.

The publication of the sentence has begun a new era, I agree. Now the leaders, given that there is no way to take them seriously, have given the witness of the process to "the excited citizens who believed that (...) the referendum (...) would lead to the longed for horizon of a sovereign republic ". We will see the result.

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