The day the Civil Guard caught Artur Mas “with hardcore porn magazines”
The former president explained in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio that the police even threatened him with jail
BarcelonaThe former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas reviewed this Monday in an interview on the program The Mediterranean Republic One of the anecdotes that reveal the most mischievous moments of his youth. "I don't know if that can be explained," the former Convergent leader began by saying to the interviewer, Maria de la Pau Janer. Mas recounted that in 1974, when he was 18 and had finished school, he made a trip that will forever remain etched in his memory: an Interrail trip with classmates through the European capitals. He doesn't remember if it was in Copenhagen or Amsterdam that they decided to go to a market where "there were magazines of all kinds." "Porn magazines; and we bought them." A "mistake" that he paid dearly for, because the Civil Guard caught him in Portbou, returning by train, and he ended up naked.
Mas elaborated: "Returning by train, the Civil Guard in Portbou caught a couple of us in the group and made us empty our backpack. At the end of the trip they detected the porn magazines in our backpack, but they weren't porn." light". "Porn hard", said the interviewer, and Mas, with a half laugh, stressed that yes, they were "porn porn". "We were 18 years old, we came from a closed, retrograde Spain", he added, and remembers "the mistake of buying them and putting them in the backpack", since it would have been more. ", concludes the former president.
He ended up naked and scared, but then discovered that it was not exactly because of the pornographic magazines: "They told me: "Boy, this is going to cost you jail""He said, although he was mistaken for a drug dealer. "I later found out why. It wasn't because of the magazines. It seems that later we found out that they had a photograph of a character who looked like me and when they saw me and compared it with the photograph they said 'there we have it, this is a drug dealer'," he says about the episode. A train journey back home after travelling around the Old Continent that he has not yet forgotten.
