CATALONIA
'The prosecutions seek to condemn the independence leaders on charges
of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds. "But the evidence
for these crimes is dissolving," says the article. "The state has done
little to show that the Catalan government diverted funds from public
coffers to finance the referendum or that there was any violence," it
argues.'
'And with all this, according to the article, the
Supreme Court trial of the independence leaders is likely to achieve
just one thing: "to obliterate the confidence of millions of Catalans in
the Spanish judicial system". However it ends, says Fonseca, it will
signify a defeat: "a lost opportunity to solve the political crisis with
Catalonia".'
