Puigdemont describes constitutionalist parties as "contemporary Bourbon armies"

"With the fall of Barcelona, ​​we know that Catalonia lost its freedom"

   BARCELONA, 11 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former president of the Generalitat and MEP of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, has described the Spanish constitutionalist parties as "contemporary Bourbon armies", alluding to the siege of Barcelona on September 11, 1714 by the Bourbon troops, a historic event for the which commemorates the Day of Catalonia.

This is what was said this Monday in an audio message recorded at an event by the Comisión Independentista Fossar de les Moreres and the ANC, in which the president of the independence organization, Dolors Feliu, and the president of the Catalan State, Josep Andrew, among others.

"The times and the forms have certainly changed a lot, but the object is the same. With the fall of Barcelona we know that Catalonia lost its freedom," said Puigdemont, who added that Catalonia also began to lose its identity, something that, According to him, it is still recognizable in Spanish legislation.

The former president has assured that the constitutionalist parties "would not have doubted which side of the wall they would have been on now more than 300 years ago", and has criticized that since then a persecution against the Catalan language began.

Puigdemont has stated that the Diada is a day of memory, and has called to demand "not only freedom and independence, but the nation must be unapologetically reclaimed."

Furthermore, he has valued the 'Fossar culture', in reference to the people who went to the Fossar de les Moreres in Bercelona on September 11 "from the beginning, when the independence movement was extra-parliamentary."