Bolaños censures that the judge forces Pujol to go to Madrid: "It could have been checked from Barcelona"

BarcelonaSalvador Illa asked for "common sense" from the justice system after learning that the National Court was forcing Jordi Pujol to travel to Madrid to testify, and this Thursday the Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños, did so. "Surely [Jordi Pujol's health status] could have been checked in Barcelona. But it is a decision of the court," he stated in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio. Bolaños is confident that with the forensic doctor's examination, "Pujol's health status will be verified and a definitive decision will be made." "Judicial processes should not be more burdensome for the people who suffer them than strictly necessary," Bolaños added.

The minister's words come the week that the court trying the Pujol family has summoned the former president for next Monday morning to testify and, beforehand, to examine his health status. The decision goes against the criteria of the forensic experts who last November made public that the former president was not "in physical or cognitive condition" to be tried. Now the National Court again offers him the possibility of providing "the documents he deems appropriate for his medical assessment". 

already explained in an interview with ARAPujol's personal doctor, Jaume Padrós, explained in an interview with ARA a few months ago that the former president was not "in a condition to defend himself or to argue dialectically". On the first day of the trial, in fact, Pujol appeared remotely in a statement in which he admitted that he was "not in great shape" to face the trial. One of his sons, Oriol Pujol, had also defended this, stating that his father wanted to go to the trial, but that his body "could not stand it" to go to Madrid.