After in July of Last year he announced that he was leaving music And after months without giving interviews, Josep Miquel Arenas, known musically as Valtònyc, opens up in a long conversation in the new cultural magazine The Promotion, presented yesterday, Tuesday, in Girona. The quarterly, 114-page publication was born in the "record time" of just four months after the president of the El Foment Foundation, Candi Granés, entrusted journalist Andreu Mas with the management of the project.

The Majorcan rapper Valtònyc was happy and also emotional as he left Ghent's Court of Appeal of Ghent this Tuesday after a very short hearing. The Belgian court again rejected his extradition to Spain, as the Spanish High Court has demanded for the last four years. The court had to examine his case for the second time, after the Brussels Court of Cassation upheld in part the appeal by the Spanish Prosecutor's Office. And that is why Valtònyc had to stand trial again in Ghent, this time by a different set of judges. The court only heard the case for insults against the Crown. Being a reconfirmation of a previous sentence, everything indicates it should be final. Nevertheless, the Belgian Prosecutor's Office can still appeal again in cassation, and that is why the musician has struggled to hold back tears during his statements to the press.

The last instance of the Belgian judicial system will decide on Tuesday, January 18 on the extradition of the Majorcan rapper Josep Miquel Arenas, alias Valtònyc, to Spain. The Court of Cassation in Brussels has therefore delayed the decision on the rapper, who is wanted by Spain for glorification of terrorism, insults to the Crown and threats, for another week. The Ghent Court of Appeal had already overturned the European arrest warrant at the end of December, but the Belgian prosecutor's office, on behalf of the Spanish one, decided to appeal to the last judicial instance, which is the one that will decide next Tuesday.

The Seville prosecutor's office is asking for 4 years in prison for Mallorcan rapper Josep Miquel Arenas, aka Valtònyc, for a hate crime against the Guardia Civil (Civil Guard) related to his songs. The Belgian police took a statement from the singer at the request of the Spanish authorities a few months ago and this Friday has received the request for imprisonment from the prosecutor's office, as confirmed by the ACN. Valtònyc's defense does not know for now if the trial would be at a distance or if the Spanish justice would have to make a new European order. The singer already has extradition proceedings open in Belgium for the three-and-a-half-year prison sentence he received in 2017 for glorifying terrorism, insulting the Crown and making threats through the lyrics of his songs. A few months after that conviction, in May 2018, Valtònyc went into exile in Belgium to avoid prison.

Pablo Hasél will be the first musician imprisoned in the Spanish state for his songs since the Transition to Democracy. Hasél would have to enter a penitentiary center at the end of next week, after the National Court gave him ten days to enter on Thursday of last week. The rapper, who is sentenced to nine months for a crime of glorification of terrorism and another of insult to the Crown, has said he will not surrender voluntarily, but that it will have to be the police who arrests him. The case has raised a wave of protests in defense of his freedom - this Saturday and Sunday demonstrations have been called throughout Catalonia and the State - and, along with the prison sentences of Valtònyc and La Insurgencia, has put the use of the law to silence artists in the spotlight.