Although it seems grotesque, we should not relativize Boriss Cilevics' visit to Spain on an official mission to find out if human rights are respected in our country. This Latvian socialist chairs the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: he is commissioned by a relevant European organization that in the past has already shown a bleeding ignorance of the Spanish socio-political context criticizing the convictions of ETA terrorists, the that despite the spilled blood some foreign forums considered for too long mere nationalist activists. Now the subject of the exam has gone from Basque nationalism to Catalan.

Cilevics has already met in Lledoners prison with Oriol Junqueras and Raúl Romeva, and previously with representatives of the Ministries of Interior, Justice and Foreign Affairs, as well as with senators and with the Supreme Prosecutors themselves who maintained the charge of rebellion until the final. As EL MUNDO has revealed, the meeting with the Prosecutor's Office was not without tension , since Cilevics was determined to shave his legal proceeding to prosecutors of proven prestige and extensive experience; but when they asked him if the sentence had been read, the Baltic commissioner answered no. It can therefore be assumed that, at the time of preparing his report, Cilevics will be moved to a large extent by his personal prejudices , fueled by the victimist propaganda of separatism according to which the imprisoned independence leaders are by his ideas and not by the overflow of the law that a full trial of procedural guarantees demonstrated in their conduct.

That report, however, may end up at the Strasbourg Court table, an institution that is under the institutional umbrella of the Council of Europe. It is therefore urgent that the Spanish delegation deploys a tireless work of pedagogy to amend before the relevant committee of the Council the injurious bias that the Cilevics report can take . Separatism promotes a Strasbourg ruling favorable to its interests that would be catastrophic for Spain. Recall that the initial document of the Latvian deputy deals with Catalonia and Turkey - as if they were comparable - and is based on opinions as unbalanced as those of a representative of Òmnium Cultural or Luis López Guerra, architect of the repeal of the Parot doctrine, which allowed several rapists and dozens of Etarras to be released with blood crimes.

For all this it is not exactly a good time for Sanchez, hostage to his pacts - to them obeys his embarrassing meeting with Torra today -, relax the inner and outer battle against separatist intoxication.

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