Rajoy, who was in power between the years 2011 and 2018, was called to testify on Wednesday. All of the accused facing trial suspects of crimes related with the Catalan referendum on independence in October 2017.
” They are fully aware that as long as Mariano Rajoy was minister, there would be no legal independence declaration as restrict the country’s sovereignty, he said in court where he spoke about himself in the third person.
that is regionpresidenten Carles Puigdemonts representatives testified. He criticized the Rajoys decision to send police to Catalonia to prevent people from voting.
Rajoy said he regrets the violence of the police during the referendum, at the same time, he put the blame on Catalan leaders and activists.
“I really regret the pictures, I don’t like them,” he said in court if the documentation showing how some police officers used violence against protesters.
