Lawyer

"Surely neither Palestine nor Catalonia will be my last battles." The speaker was sentenced to almost 15 years in prison for his participation with ETA in the kidnappings of Emiliano Revilla and Diego Prado and Colón de Carvajal . Today, Gonzalo Boye is Puigdemont's lawyer. While he was in prison he decided to study law (which allowed him to redeem grief and leave at age 8), in order to continue, from another front, his internationalist combat, which "must be understood from equal rights between different peoples and the final disappearance of colonialism in any of its forms ... also of the existing one within the same State. "

This would be the situation in Catalonia, as explained in ... And there I leave it. Chronicle of a process ( Roca Editorial ). That is why he agreed to defend the political leaders of the Generalitat, escaped in 2017 to avoid the action of Justice after the institutional coup and the organization of the 1-O referendum. One case, he writes proudly, that transcends "the ephemeral" to "settle in the plane of the recent history of Catalonia, of Spain and, also, of Europe." The "mass repression" against the independence leaders, he concludes, is the attempt to silence "an absolutely democratic movement that has questioned the 'foundation' of the system that emerged from the Spanish Constitution of 1978, which is none other than the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation. "

Thanks to Boye, Puigdemont is still free, traveling through Europe, despite the requirements of the Supreme Court. He does not hide that, for him, Law is "an instrument for the transformation of reality . " And clarifies: while the TS is dedicated "to rewrite the Spanish legal system, our work has been to create radical and imaginative law or solutions to problems hitherto unknown."

Boye knows exactly what his mission is. He knows well the successful strategy of Basque nationalism, which Catalan independentism tries to imitate, acting in a coordinated way on several fronts : the politician, from the Generalitat; the media, with the control of regional television and its oiled relations with the international press; the legal one, through lawyers like him, who apply what the left calls an alternative use of the Law; for five days, in addition, street fighting .

That characters with their trajectory are at the epicenter of the legal defense of independence make efforts to present the movement as peaceful. Boye is more abrasive than the flames that ravage Barcelona these days.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Supreme Court
• Palestine
• Spain
• Editorial
• ETA
• Catalonia
• Barcelona
• Columnists
• Opinion
• 1-O trial

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