Editorial: El País

• The Supreme Court decides to investigate former President of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont and ERC deputy, Rubén Wagensberg, for alleged terrorism after the 2019 protests.
• The theories of judge García-Castellón have been assumed by the Supreme, who investigated Puigdemont for the possibility of public disorder, never for terrorism.
• The investigation was reactivated in November 2023, coinciding with the tumultuous Spanish autumn and Pedro Sánchez's proposal for an amnesty law.
• The Spanish prosecutor and the Supreme prosecutor reject the idea of terrorism in this case, seeing it more as conjectures and suspicions.
• The reversal of roles where the Prosecution rejects and the court accepts circumstantial evidence raises deep doubts about legal security.
• The doctrinal interpretation of whether subverting the constitutional order or public peace equals committing a terrorist act is questionable.
• The coincidence in the timeline of the judicial investigation and legislative activity raises concerns about citizen trust in institutions.

Conclusion: This case highlights the problems of the Spanish judicial system in its interpretation of disorder as acts of terrorism, an issue that can be seen as an attempt to restrict the right to protest and that causes a lack of trust in political and judicial institutions.

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