While ETA no Longer Exists, Spain finds ways to Further Criminalize the Pro-sovereignty Movements in Catalonia

Updated version, with Cartes per la Republica

Nine members of the Republic Defence Committees (CDR) were arrested on September 23 by the Spanish police in another attempt to intimidate and criminalize the Catalan pro-sovereignty movement on the eve of the sentencing of the 12 political prisoners who will most likely be sentenced to the maximum penalties for exercising their prerogatives of calling for a referendum for the independence of Catalonia, (in October 2017) following the popular will of the Catalan people which provides steps towards achieving a Catalan state.

The operation has been called for by Spain’s National Court (Audiencia Nacional) in Madrid and that means that accusations of “terrorism” are on the table, as otherwise a local Catalan court would have led the operation.

Of the 9 CDR’s originally taken intocustody, 7 were sent to jail and 2 of them would have admitted to buying and manipulating explosives.