Today, the Catalan President in Exile, Carles Puigdemont, accompanied by the vice-president of the parliament Josep Costa, and the president of the chamber of Barcelona Joan Canadell, visited the house of Prats de Molló from where the president Francesc Macià prepared one of the historical actions that internationalized Catalan sovereignty. Puigdemont has asked to maintain "the spirit of Prats de Molló that erases artificial borders, twins us and inspires us" just after making a floral offering on a monolith dedicated to President Macià. During the visit, Puigdemont was accompanied by Jaume Aragall, President of the Chamber of Commerce in the Vallès Oriental through the Eines de País platform, wwho has bought the Ville and the Mayor of Prats de Molló, Claude Ferrer. With both of them, he visited the whole house accompanied by a very expert guide in the matter, the head of the office of President Josep Lluís Alay. Once the visit was over, the cession agreement was signed with the Casa Macià Association for the management of the house and its museification process. The visit to the house went through all the corners, even the private room of Macià, where they kept the ammunition or the room where the General Staff met.
The visit came just one week after Denise Ville was literally rescued in a joint operation by activists on both sides of the border. This residence was the center of operations and the headquarters of the General Staff when in 1926 he proposed the military operation to free Catalonia from the yoke of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and, in return, turn it into an independent republic. The Italian and Spanish secret services thwarted the operation. However, the European press of the time was full of them. A fact that Puigdemont himself, during the visit, described as the first great internationalization of the Catalan cause. More than a hundred Volunteers of the movement Estat Català (Catalan State) were involved.
"From a personal point of view, it's a visit that has caused me a lot of emotion, to be able to step on Catalan soil again, you can't explain the emotion I feel," said Puigdemont. "As president and as a citizen of Catalonia, I am honored to be in this center of reference in the struggle for the liberation of Catalonia and President Macià in his work and commitment," he added. "We come from afar and we want to go far, and to go far we must know where we come from and maintain maximum fidelity to the common thread of struggle for freedom that our ancestors did, a struggle that they did not do to enjoy it but to be able to bequeath to the next generations a society and a country where democracy and freedom are possible, essential ingredients for the prosperity of the people ”, he indicated at the foot of the house. "The search for a free country is linked to a better country, to a society with opportunities," he said.
"They haven't given up on us. We follow the red thread of struggle. History will repeat itself until we achieve this full freedom, we are on the way, we have advanced, we can happily resolve despite the strong repression, our demands with democratic persistence, from which we will not deviate a millimeter, we have traveled a not inconsiderable journey, we still have a stretch to cover that we will only be able to do as we have traveled so far, ”he explained.
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