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The Alghero promenade became this Sunday for a few minutes the epicenter of a tropical storm that uprooted palm trees, knocked over motorcycles and scattered

souvenirs

along the avenue.

And he stopped the sardanas for a few hours.

"We can with everything, nothing stops us," boasted, after the gale, an attendee at the

Aplec International

festival

, held this weekend on the Sardinian coast.

Neither the storms nor the earthquakes like the one that shook the Catalan independence movement on Thursday night with the arrest of the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, released less than 24 hours later.

"We knew it would come out," says a group of participants, members of a group

of gegants

from the Urgell region, in Lleida. "We thought about demonstrating as soon as we got to Alghero, but he got his freedom." Some found out hours before getting on a plane, others in the middle of the Mediterranean boat trip. And all those consulted respond in the same way: they would have organized on the island to demand from the peaceful means the release of Puigdemont, imprisoned for a few hours in a high security prison in Sassari, near Alghero.

Among the most fervent nationalists, many gathered this weekend in Sardinia, the idea has penetrated that the arrest of the former leader of the Catalan Executive responds to an operation woven between the Government and the judicial apparatus to knock down Catalan secessionist expectations. A thesis that already supported the sector of Junts in the Government when defining the vice-president

Jordi Puigneró

the arrest of Puigdemont like a “conspiracy”. The former president himself also denounced after his release the "persecution" he is experiencing and pointed to the Government. "It's a manhunt."

In the secessionist community, the involvement of the Government is defended, even despite the denials of the Interior, they believe that there were Spanish agents involved.

“They were certainly not in uniform, but I saw a person who, suspiciously, was not part of the Italian police team.

He was, coincidentally, in a glass that led to the exit of the plane, where they went down the stairs, that he was filming with his mobile phone hooked to the glass in a very ostensible way.

I didn't think it was from the Italian police, frankly, "was Puigdemont's response given at a press conference after his release from prison.

"It's by chance ...", said a resident of the island, outside the festival, in relation to the fact that the arrest took place in such an iconic place for the Catalan independence movement.

"It is a black hand to weigh the pride of Madrid," say some neighbors of Cellera de Ter, a small town adjacent to Puigdemont's native Amer. Dressed behind their backs with a

stellate

with an embroidered yellow bow, they claim wherever they travel, like the former president, that the "repression" has not ended with the release from prison of the pro-independence leaders tried on October 1. "All exiles must be able to return to Catalonia," they ask. Also Puigdemont.

The former Catalan leader himself took advantage of his last hours in Sardinia, before returning to Brussels for a few days, to verify that this "repression" has not remained in the past and that if Pedro Sánchez does not propose a valid alternative plan for independence, that a his judgment only passes through the referendum, Catalonia will have to consider the unilateral way again.

The Catalans "have every right," he said, because it is a legitimate way, as the European Justice has certified.

It is, yes, "the last resort," he warned.

With his visit this Sunday to Oristano, where he met with the independence mayors of the island, Puigdemont puts an end to almost three days from which he again extracts how the State has "amplified" the independence theses.

However, there are those who regret, despite the unforeseen presence of prominent independence leaders, a greater involvement of political representatives in one of the most "symbolic" festivals in remembrance, beyond the courtesy visit and attention to the media .

"Culture is country," commented one participant with emotion.

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