Pujol, written sentence

Jordi Pujol faces the judicial truth starting today, but at 95 years old, and 22 years after leaving the presidency of the Generalitat, history's verdict is already written and nuanced by the passage of time: an anti-Franco activist who suffered torture and imprisonment, later becoming a father figure to the president, with warnings and evidence about certain economic practices by some members of his family during two decades of absolute power in Catalonia and political influence in Spain. All the lessons on values that permeated his political actions turned against him when he confessed the truth. But eleven years have passed since that Sant Jaume day in 2014, and everyone has had time to distance themselves from the man. Only those who could never accept his six consecutive electoral victories are waiting for a court ruling that will finally vindicate them in the dying moments. In any case, a guilty verdict would confirm that everything happened simultaneously: the national reconstruction of Catalonia and a president who didn't always practice the ethical self-discipline he preached. Because everyone also knows that if Pujol hadn't said he no longer had any arguments against independence, nor had he written that "either independent or residual," the justice system would have left him alone, just as it had for so many years. And the recent conviction of the Attorney General, which makes a confessed fraudster a compensable victim, has demonstrated, in case the trial of the Catalan independence leaders didn't make it clear enough, that the Spanish justice system lost sight of reality long ago.