“There are people interested in creating a climate of hatred and civil war.

And our duty is to prevent it.

They want me to shut up or go away.

And I'm not going to shut up and I'm not going to leave ».

The writer Javier Cercas, in conversation with EL MUNDO, warns that he has decided to stand after the independence lynching suffered as a result of his appearance last weekend on TV3 and the dissemination of a hoax through social networks, even fed by secessionist deputies, in which he is tortuously accused of having requested the intervention of the Army in Catalonia.

Already while he appeared last Saturday on the FAQS program on TV3, the "very professional" harassment campaign against Cercas was beginning to take shape.

«What is a promoter of the military uprising against Catalonia doing on TV3?

This is not freedom of expression, it is a public television that gives fascism a privileged position, ”proclaimed JxCat parliamentarian Cristina Casol on Twitter.

The elected representative fueled fire against the author of Anatomía de un Instante using the decontextualized dissemination of a speech delivered by Cercas in 2019 during the commemoration of Extremadura Day, in which she stated: “When public life, politics, are full of passion, adventures, emotions, as has happened to us Catalans in recent years, start to tremble or call the general's unit ", he said referring and pointing to Miguel Alcañiz, head of the Military Emergency Unit (UME) , present at the event.

From the dissemination of that fragment, separatism used to maintain that Cercas claimed a military intervention to stop the independence challenge to the constitutional order.

Among the avalanche of insults received in recent days, Cercas reviews especially burdensome comparisons issued by media referents of Catalan sovereignty, such as the journalist Enric Calpena, who wrote in this way: «Radovan Karadzic was a recognized poet before the war of Bosnia.

Nikola Koljevik, Serbian vice-president, was a specialist in Shakespeare and was the one who gave the order to destroy the Sarajevo library.

Against this "attempt at intimidation" Cercas will try to take legal action, who has already placed the case in the hands of a criminal prosecutor, even though he is aware of the difficulty of his legal defense prospering because "Spain is a democratic country with freedom of expression, which is what these people do not understand.

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