It's the trial they've been waiting for for years. On Monday morning, Spanish private television channels reported on the start of the Pujol case trial with the same exacting precision with which they pronounced his surname.Puyol"It's an allegory for investigative journalism. Ana Rosa's program They inquired about "the hidden fortune" with the help of Eduardo Inda, the leading expert on the matter. In the montages of archival footage of the Pujol family, they used sequences of stacks of banknotes as a separator. The presenter and her colleagues mixed and confused circumstances, details, and news stories, in a totum revolutum of the case. In Antena 3 News The news report incorporated a subtle humorous montage in the style of APM, taking expressions and blunders from Pujol and Ferrussola to make the case even more grotesque.Those who were the image of cleanliness and integrity in Catalonia will be judged for the exact opposite."," they said to close the report. It was a constant theme throughout the morning: a certain judgment of Catalan society, as if it were complicit, as proof of the hypocrisy of an entire country. But the one who was most agitated and exuded uninhibited contempt was Antonio García Ferreras in Red hotHe spent the entire morning repeating the exact same litany:Jordi Pujol, possibly the most corrupt politician in Spanish history. They've really taken advantage of him!"He displayed a certain sarcastic distrust of Jordi Pujol's medical assessments. After a live report by journalist Ferran Casas commenting on the start of the trial, Ferreras dismissed him, adding a postscript of his own:"I think he's stolen so much he's forgotten all about it."When it was the turn of the former general secretary of CCOO Catalunya, Joan Coscubiela, now an analyst on the program, to speak, García Ferreras kept repeating the same thing: "23 years taking it away from the crude oil for decades and decades in power!"And he insisted:"They took it from him raw! I think he's one of the most corrupt politicians and families in the history of Spanish democracy."The conversation alluded to the complicity of Catalan society. The presenter ofRed hot He repeated to her through the large mouthpiece:All of Catalonia knew what he knew, but he was untouchable, he was the emperor.". Shortly afterwards, the mantra about Jordi Pujol returned: "He is one of the politicians who has stolen the most money from the citizens."

If a political figure, both personally and politically, has been tried in Catalonia, it has been former President Jordi Pujol. More than a decade ago, his confession about the money abroad sent him into ostracism, from which he has only recently begun to emerge. But the point is that the trial that truly matters, the one that will determine his guilt or innocence, will be held this fall after more than twelve years of judicial investigation. It will begin on November 24th at the National Court and could become the trial of the decade. The Prosecutor's Office is seeking up to nine years in prison for the former president and 29 for his eldest son; while the State Attorney's Office is seeking no prison sentence for the former president and 25 years for his eldest son. How is the family facing this trial? What strategy will it follow? Will Jordi Pujol, at 95 years old, be in the dock in person?