Spain compares Catalan Democratic Process to Terrorism

Before the European Parliament vice-president, Alejo Vidal Quadras‘ statements on TV, the Spanish civil guard had never pronounced itself in regards to the Catalan secessionist process. Never before had they politicized their speeches (except when one of them own, Antonio Tejero Molina, took the Spanish Congress in 1981). And they had never done so because previous governments (under González, Aznar, and Zapatero) had never allowed them to be more than a security force at the service of the state.

“The whole Spanish nation…" many statements of the CEO of the Guardia Civil, Arsenio Fernandez de Mesa, in defense of Spanish nationalism, so outrageously expelled through the mouth of the ultraconservative MEP's Alejo Vidal-Quadras, which called for a brigadier general to placate the democratic process of many Catalans, many expletives and outbursts unanswered from Government of Rajoy. Now comes the commanding general of the Civil Guard in Castilla -La Mancha, Joaquin Ruiz Seco, and, without thinking twice, reminds us all that the Spanish Constitution determines that the national sovereignty belongs to the Spanish people, emphasizing: "in all the Spanish people," "concerning postures that encourage secessionist unilaterally ".

"The common and indivisible Nation" Statements made by the General during the celebration of the feast of October the 12th in Toledo, where Ruiz Seco grew at times in his speech to have receptivity of his immediate superior, the delegate government in Castilla-La Mancha, Jesus Labrador, who listened unmoved as the chief of the Civil Guard said, among other things, that the Constitution is based on "the indissoluble unity of the Spanish nation, the common and indivisible homeland of all Spanish ".

Not only that, but General Ruiz Seco, after defending the military condition of his men, and when his speech also had the blessing of President of the Castilian-La Mancha Courts and of the secretary of the PP in this community, Vicente Tirado, did not hesitated to equate secessionism with terrorism, and mixed ETA terrorism with the democratic catalan process calling it “secessionist terrorism”.

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