When you have to go to a Congressional investigation commission to deny the evidence, that is, that Operation Catalunya existed and that you are portrayed, you always have the option of acting offended by acting like a character ofThe Verbena of the Doveand displaying the mastery of the dialectical technique of KO verbosity, which is Alicia Sánchez Camacho's specialty, to make it seem like she's doing it all. Well, there's another specialty, which is the world upside down, and claiming that the only Operation Catalonia was the Trial. There are historical precedents: Franco's courts accused of rebellion all those who remained loyal to the government of the Republic. If you want it more modern, Trump and his imitators accuse others of what they do. In psychology, this is called projection.
The day the prosecutor's office filed the complaint against the Catalan government for the November 9th referendum in 2014, Sánchez Camacho appeared on television in the morning and gave the scoop on the terms of the accusation. He was quite precise. They were probably trusted prosecutors.
And that was the problem: incapable of providing a political response to millions of people demonstrating and voting, Rajoy's governments first activated the sewers and then the courts, so that the problem posed in Catalonia not only didn't disappear but actually grew worse. Afterwards, the turpitude became fairly evenly distributed, but it was with this inability to engage in political dialogue that it all began. I don't know if Sánchez Camacho is "much smarter than she seems," but she certainly can't call herself a second-class citizen.
