Pons criticizes the pro-independence boycott of an act of 17-A: "It gives rise to more division and not more union"

He dismisses as "delirium" the words of former minister Joaquim Forn about the questions that the State would have to clarify

MADRID, 17 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The PP Deputy Secretary for Institutions, Esteban González Pons, expressed his "sorrow and sadness" this Wednesday for the pro-independence boycott of an event that took place in Barcelona in memory of the victims of the attacks on August 17, 2017. " We are the only Western country in which an attack of these characteristics gives rise to more division and not more union," he lamented.

Some 40 people have protested this morning in the vicinity of the act of homage to the victims for the fifth anniversary of the attack in Barcelona and Cambrils (Tarragona) with signs saying 'We claim responsibilities' and 'We want to know the truth'.

In the eyes of the 'popular' leader, Spain "needs to rebuild a common spirit" that looks "to the future" so that Spaniards feel "all part of something". This has been expressed in statements to Cuatro, which has been collected by Europa Press, when asked about his opinion on that boycott.

González Pons has complained that Spanish politics has been looking "only through the rear-view mirror" for years, while reacting to the statements made by the former Catalan minister of the Interior, Joaquim Forn, who published a tweet today stating that "there is still too many questions" about the attack that "the State does not reveal".

In Pons' opinion, "that the independence supporters make the Government of Spain a worse enemy than jihadist terrorism says a lot about their mental chaos." Forn was the Minister of the Interior of the Government when the attacks took place, which caused 16 deaths and more than a hundred wounded of 24 nationalities.

"Forn's statements are pro-independence delusions that do not lead anywhere," said the deputy secretary of the PP, who recalled that there is a judicial investigation and a sentence that deny conspiracy theories.

The deputy secretary of the PP wanted to emphasize that today is a day to remember "the real victims", some 350 people, but of whom some "120" have not yet been located "because the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Government of Spain They have not bothered to tell them what benefits, services and compensation they have".

"I would ask the Generalitat and the Government of Spain that, out of shame, the first thing they did today was to set up a device so that all the victims know that they are recognized today. We must speak less and do more," he demanded. .