Reuters, 14/04 20:50 CET
Madrid, April 14 ( EFE ) .- The Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, insisted today that the Nous Catalans foundation linked to Democratic Convergence of Catalonia ( CDC ) works to integrate immigrants into an independence project “fracture Catalan society within it.”
Thus Minister has spoken in the full Senate to respond to parliamentary CiU Josep Maldonado, who has criticized the “endeavor” Fernandez Diaz to “link” sovereignism and jihadism rather than congratulate the Mossos d’Esquadra for his last operation against jihadist terrorism.
Fernández Díaz has accused the senator from the ranks of CiU talk of coexistence “when his party is undergoing a process that divides and fracture Catalan society” and a “clear insubordination with the State “.
You have highlighted the” high esteem “that has for the Mossos and praised the” excellent “cooperation of this body with state security forces.
The interior minister has said he has not linked jihadism and sovereignism, but what he did was “linking certain activities of a foundation of CDC , Nous Catalans, activities that was not prudent to develop “.
What, in his opinion, was credited with the arrest and expulsion from Spain in May 2013 to promote the Moroccan citizen Salafism Noureddin Ziani, president of the Union of Islamic Cultural Centers Catalonia ( UCCIC ) and member of Nous Catalans.
Maldonado, meanwhile, has accused the minister of “criminalizing one convivial democratic process, civic and as the living Catalonia at this time. “
Nous Catalans, said the senator, who chaired this organization a few years ago, is dedicated to the” integration in Catalonia “and that, according to him, “upset and hurt” Fernandez Diaz, whom he recalled that his community has 15 percent of foreigners, while the Spanish average is just over 10 percent.
It has also demanded that the minister that “do not mix a peaceful and convivial movement which kill and behead” and asked him if he was ashamed to “play so dirty.”
Senator has not wanted to ask the minister’s resignation because it ” a damn “but has been told that the Ministry” is going great “and that his statements” repeatedly criminalizes several million Catalans who believe in a free, sovereign and peaceful “Catalonia.
“Solo helps break Catalonia and this history will not forgive,” he broached to him.
Fernández Díaz has responded with data and reminded him that eleven operations against jihadist terrorism carried out so far this year, five have been developed in Catalonia and 40 arrested, 25 have been in that community, where 50 of the 90 Salafi mosques.
You alluded to reports Intelligence 2011 and 2012 that he sent the president of the Generalitat, Artur Mas, to warn of the risks of such radicalism, which means that his ministry has acted with “institutional loyalty”.
Respect Nous Catalans, has insisted that works for the integration of immigrants, “but it is half of reality” and “a half truth is a double lie” because that foundation aims to “integrate immigrants into a independence project fracturing Catalan society. “
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