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How the Catalan pro-independence movement is facing a new wave of exile
Ruben Wagensberg, Oleguer Serra, Jesús Rodríguez, and Josep Campmajó have been in exile in Switzerland in recent months, where Anna Gabriel and Marta Rovira already found refuge in 2018, with Rovira still there. Six years after half of Carles Puigdemont’s government went to Belgium, Catalan independence supporters have once again resorted to exile to escape […]
The clandestine nature of the Tsunami Democràtic when calling for protests against the sentences of the political prisoners is precisely explained by the lessons learned in 2017, when the presidents of the ANC and Òmnium Cultural were imprisoned as scapegoats for the massive mobilizations prior to the independence referendum. That is why the new exiles have relied on Switzerland, with a history of respect for political rights, headquarters of international organizations such as the United Nations, and which has already granted refuge to Catalan independence supporters, such as Anna Gabriel and Marta Rovira. For now, García-Castellón has ended up with a slap in the face due to the refusal of the Swiss authorities to cooperate in the investigation and provide information about a bank account suspected of financing the Tsunami and about the current address of Rovira.
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