AME made sure to stress this last point, which seems like it is becoming a recurring theme in Spain's history, since it is well known that the genocidal, anti-democratic, and repressing actions by the Spanish governments have subjugated Catalonia for centuries.
According to these retired army officers, all who are collaborating with, or have participated in this cause should be aware that they will have to answer to an accusation of high treason in front of a military court.
These words take a whole new dimension when we consider that the last Catalan president before Franco's dictatorship, Lluís Companys, was court-martialed, sentenced to death, and shot by the fascist Spanish army. He is the only democratically elected president to ever have been executed in Europe.
We, the Catalan people can not believe in a Spain that uses weapons against democracy. We are confident that the old atrocities with bombs and guns to answer the wishes of a people has no place in the Kingdom of Spain today. We also know that Europe will never share already exceeded our civilized western world