The president of Catalonia, Quim Torra, has affirmed this Saturday that "the great concept without which the history of this country cannot be understood is the "combat for freedom", two days before he goes on trial before the Catalonia High Court on a disobedience charge after maintaining a banner and symbolic yellow ribbon on the facade of the government palace, the Palau de la Generalitat, after Spain's Electoral Comission had ordered the removal of these elements.
Torra, who was presiding over the ceremony to commemorate the 1100th anniversary of the Catalan town of Maçanet de la Selva, stated that "we want to live in peace, in accordance with what has always been the great consensus of Catalan society, which are those of democracy, solidarity and fraternity."
The president asserted that in Catalonia "history is being made", in which everyone has to assume their responsibility, "whatever that corresponds to", in order to build "a country where human, civil and political rights are respected".
Torra said that "Catalonia has always been a land of peace and hospitality", an aspect in which the town of Maçanet "is also exemplary", he concluded.