The former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has claimed Spain ask sorry to the town of Catalonia for him “murder in the hands of fascists” of the former president of the Republican Generalitat, Lluís Companyssince he considers that he was a “formal victim of the Spanish State.”
Coinciding with the 83rd anniversary of the execution of Companys, in 1940 by the Franco regime, Puigdemont has assured today in a message on the social network Twitter that the execution of the former president of the Republican Generalitat “It is a crime that still resonates“.
“Certainly, it was a murder at the hands of fascists but it resonates because it is much more than this: he was arrested, extradited, mistreated, tried, convicted and executed by the authorities of the Spanish State in accordance with current legality,” says Puigdemont.
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For this reason, the former Catalan president and leader of JxCat maintains that Companys was not a victim of an “uncontrolled commando”, but was a “formal victim of the Spanish State“.
“And it is this (the Spanish State) that has to apologize to the people of Catalonia, because it executed him for having been president,” Puigdemont emphasizes.