Catalan leader demanded arrest for “conspiracy and provocation” – El Universal (Venezuela)

Madrid .- The Spanish Attorney General has since Thursday on his table a petition to stop the head of the government of Catalonia, Artur Mas, by inciting sedition with the call for regional elections on September 27.

The ultraconservative organization in Madrid Clean Hands filed a complaint against Mas, three days after convene Early elections in Catalonia that aims to turn into a referendum on independence , DPA reported.

Considers that the Catalan leader acts in “fraud” and accused of a crime of threats and coercion to state institutions and other sedition “in their degree of attempt, conspiracy and provocation.” Both are punishable by prison.

The decree calling for elections was adjusted to law, not to mention the secession or plebiscite, a figure that does not exist in Spanish law. But in his public statements, he has openly said that this election to measure support for independence and, if he wins the nomination secessionist unit he sponsors, intends to declare independence in eight months.

Clean Hands asks the Catalan leader is suspended from duty and arrested. Its secretary general, Miguel Bernard, compared the secessionist process that opened two years ago with the intent of coup that Spain experienced the February 23, 1981 and the Islamist attacks of March 11, 2004 in Madrid.

“They are the most serious since the democratic transition events,” Bernard said.

The organization, which calls itself the union but has no representatives in the workplace, has already sued More for self-determination without consulting legal nature which sponsored the November 9 in Catalonia. Topping the Prosecution in that case, in which the High Court of Justice of Catalonia has yet to decide if accused the head of the regional government.

Clean Hands has a history of complaints with media coverage, such as that introduced against the then judge Baltasar Garzon for trespass in their investigation of the crimes of Francoism or who asked attributed to the Infanta Cristina, sister of King Philip, for his involvement in the corruption case starring her husband.

Following a complaint filed against more today, the organization believes that the prosecution should move quickly, “long before the plebiscite elections,” said Bernard. However, not confident that will be the case. “The Spanish government does not want to make a victim or a martyr of Artur Mas,” he added.