Counterpunch, November 6, 2017
On 6 October 1934, president Lluís Companys proclaimed the
Catalan State. This attempt ended up with the imprisonment of the
members of the Catalan Government and the suspension of the Statute of
Autonomy by the Spanish Government. Lluis Companys was executed in 1940
by Franco’s firing squad. He remains the only incumbent democratically
elected president in European history to have been executed.
We all expected the worst outcome, it was an open secret wriggling
through the labyrinths of the Spanish court. Earlier this week, one of
the bailiffs, during a microphone testing, said it out loud: “
a la cárcel todos” (all to jail).
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