The prosecutor in the Pujol case accuses the defenses of wanting to turn the trial into an "attack on Catalonia"

San Fernando de Henares"This process does not attack Catalonia, it aims to defend all Catalan citizens." Prosecutor Fernando Bermejo thus began his final report on the Pujol family trial with a combative tone. 24 hours after deciding tomaintain all prison sentence requests, it was time to present his conclusions. "The defenses tried to introduce the patriotic police and their testimony was of no use in trying to turn this trial into a political trial and an attack on Catalonia," he maintained. And he made an eminently political plea: "The analysis forces us to confront the public discourse sustained for years according to which «Spain is robbing us» with the investigated facts. It is especially contradictory to invoke a discourse of grievance due to lack of resources while fraudulently evading the contribution to the system that is to generate these same resources," he proclaimed.

"While it has been stated that the lack of state resources prevented adequate financing of schools, hospitals, and public services, the judicially examined conduct points to alleged practices of income concealment and evasion of tax obligations. Whoever defrauds the Public Treasury does not harm an abstract entity, but takes resources from public services," he added. And he framed it all within "political corruption on a very important scale." Fernando Bermejo also recalled the testimony that said that decades ago having accounts in Andorra was a family tradition: "There was no tradition in Catalonia of having accounts in Andorra, what there was was a crime.