Francesc Sánchez (Sant Boi, 1971) is Oriol Pujol's lawyer in the trial currently taking place at the Audiència Nacional. During the preliminary questions, he denounced that the start of the investigation was "unlawful" and responded to the "will" of "part of the State apparatus" to want to "influence" the independence process. A few weeks ago, he provided the documentation from the case underway in Andorra regarding the disappearance of Banca Privada d'Andorra to prove the intervention of State sewers. The former legal representative of Convergència is confident that the pending witness statements from Celestino Barroso –former Interior attaché at the Andorran embassy– and Joan Pau Miquel –former CEO of BPA– will support this and celebrates that the president of the court, José Ricardo de Prada, "put a stop" to José Manuel Villarejo.

"What am I doing here?" "What am I defending myself against?" These are two questions that have been raised by two of the lawyers for the accused businessmen in the trial of the Pujol Ferrusola family which summarize the impotence expressed by the rest of the defense teams during the second session. They all converged in repeatedly denouncing violations of the right to a defense, the right to a fair trial, the right to effective judicial protection, and the adversarial principle. Basically, they believe that the facts that have brought them to trial are vague and indeterminate, and that their description can only lead to exoneration.

The family is made up of human beings. No two people are alike, and therefore, differences in potential grow and develop between parents, between siblings, and between parents and siblings, forming complex power systems that culminate in unique relationships of dependency. The figure of the eldest sibling is a classic example: they believe themselves to be superior to others and, at the same time, entitled to take advantage of their parents (the figure of the heir, enshrined in this country, is a perverse institutionalization of this reality). If the family is large, the dynamics become more complex, as do the combinations of loyalties. There is a far from innocent tendency to believe that everything is justified in the family's best interest. And it is in this context that the principle of reality is often lost, and nihilism unfolds: everything is permitted. Simultaneously, internal rivalries and loyalties take shape, with the father-mother dynamic as the guiding thread.

The first day of the Pujol Ferrusola family trial left two images for the history books: the former president of the Generalitat following the proceedings remotely from his home, and his seven children seated in the dock. It also highlighted two distinct yet complementary defense strategies: one that emphasizes the National Court's lack of jurisdiction to try the case and the statute of limitations on the alleged crimes, and another that stresses the impact of Operation Catalonia.

"The court has decided that the trial will begin with him present." Despite unfavorable forensic reports advising against it, the National Court has refused to exonerate Jordi Pujol i Soley and has decided to proceed with his trial. His seven children, the eldest son's ex-wife, and ten businesspeople are also in the dock in a trial that comes four years after the investigation concluded and which must determine whether the Pujol family's fortune in Andorra originated with their grandfather, Florenci, or was augmented with money from illegal commissions. The prosecution accuses the former president of the Generalitat of the crimes of illicit association and money laundering and is seeking a nine-year prison sentence.

This Monday it begins at the National Court the trial of the decade. Over the course of six months, the court will have to discern whether the money that the Pujol Ferrusola family had in Andorra came from the inheritance of grandfather Florenci, as the former Catalan president claims since his confession in July 2014, or came from "illicit million-dollar payments" from businessmen in exchange for "political favors".

Oriol Pujol, son of the former president of the Generalitat, has broken his silence after eleven years and just a few weeks before the Trial of the family for organized crimeThe trial, which begins on November 24 at the National Court, has been described by the former prime minister as wanting to attend the trial. "My father wants to go to the trial," he stated in an interview on Catalunya Ràdio's "El Matí." He acknowledged that the former prime minister, who served for 23 years, has cognitive problems. as published The NewspaperHe has a "speech problem" and "has trouble remembering the names of his children or grandchildren." But he made it clear that "he is not a useless man or someone who needs to be disqualified," and clarified that his goal is to be able to participate in the trial remotely, without having to travel to Madrid.