Puigdemont's 'right hand' asks to prove that the person who died in the 'Tsunami' was treated as a victim of terrorism

Warns that, if this has not been done, the National Court would have violated EU Law

MADRID, 8 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Josep Lluis Alay, the head of the office of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, has asked the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón, who is investigating the altercations caused by Tsunami Democràtic after the 'procés' ruling, to prove that the French citizen who died in the midst of these riots has been treated as a victim of terrorism, in accordance with European regulations.

This is how his defense, carried out by lawyer Gonzalo Boye, is expressed in a writing, to which Europa Press has had access, where he refers to the death due to "fatal heart disease" of a French citizen at the El Prat airport (Barcelona) in the framework of the protests led by the independence platform, an event that the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 includes in the order in which he accuses Alay, points to Puigdemont and points to terrorism crimes.

The defense demands that García Castellón provide them with a copy of all the procedures that have been carried out to comply with article 26 of Directive 2017/541 of the European Parliament and the Council, relating to the fight against terrorism, which includes the "rights of victims of terrorism residing in another Member State".

Alay adds that, "in case of not having acted in accordance with EU Law", "we proceed as a matter of urgency to fulfill said obligation"; "the serious situation of non-compliance that this court would have incurred" is "immediately brought to the attention" of the French authorities; and that "all the documentation it has regarding whether that State activated any mechanism to consider the deceased as a victim of terrorism" be collected from France.

For the defense, "it is unimaginable to think that when more than four years have passed since the events that were supposedly being investigated as a crime of terrorism, no action had been taken in accordance with EU law."

"Said more clearly, there cannot be a procedure for an alleged crime of terrorism in which, in addition, those events are linked to the death of a person and that, at the same time, have not been fulfilled, in more than four years, with what is provided for in the already cited article 26, which establishes state obligations, but which fall on this instructor, with respect to an alleged victim" of terrorism, he clarifies.

However, he expresses his surprise at the fact that such consideration could have been given to the deceased in El Prat. "We do not know since when the Penal Code or Directive (EU) 2017/541 (...) define fatal heart disease as having a terrorist etiology," he says.