Democracy and how to trash it - Madrid’s hunt for outlaws

“European values — civil rights, freedom of speech, information and assembly — are being violated by Spain’s central government”— Carles Puigdemont

THE determination of Spain’s government to get all of its Catalan dissidents back to Madrid to face trial, along with 20 others awaiting hearings and sentences, for the monstrous crime of being, well, dissidents, shows no signs of losing impetus.