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The independence leaders of Catalonia are out of prison. Junqueras: “The fight continues”

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MADRID. “Today nothing ends, today everything continues. Because today we are nine more people to join the commitment for the freedom of all the people of this country”: these are the words of Oriol Junqueras, former regional vice president of Catalonia sentenced to 13 years later the attempted secession in 2017, upon leaving prison made possible by the pardon granted to him by the Spanish government. “Prison does not bend us in the face of anything, but on the contrary strengthens our convictions,” Junqueras added. “We go out with a commitment to continue working with politics on what should never have come out of politics,” he said outside the Lledoners penitentiary center (Barcelona). Before him, the other six independence leaders who shared the prison with Junqueras took the floor: all expressed messages of vindication of the objectives of separatism. “If we are out today it is because the state has no longer been able to keep us in due to pressure from Europe”, said activist Jordi Cuixart, for example, “today is not a day of giving up, but one in which we Catalans will we reaffirm to continue our struggle “.

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“We will not accept any silence in exchange for any pardon,” said Jordi Sánchez, also an activist and member of the Junts for Catalunya party. “We will continue to fight for Catalonia’s independence,” said former regional councilor Josep Rull. The seven were photographed holding a billboard with the words ‘Freedom for Catalonia’ and a Catalan independence bandera. At another Catalan prison, located in the province of Girona, the former regional councilor Dolors Bassa, also pardoned after the sentence, said that the pardon was “a first step”, but “the repression is not over”.

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