Gonzalo Boye, “Watch out Europe coming”

To Mariano Rajoy, in his day, this idea of “judicializing politics” – managing a political problem, such as that of Catalonia, through the courts – seemed a good one.

Probably, he opted for the path knowing full well that, on the one hand, the public prosecutors could help him to “fine tune” his propositions, and on the other, that the political establishment could, to paraphrase a famous leaked message, control the key courts “via the back door.” However, what never occurred to him was that the situation might get out control because a group of madmen would cross the Pyrenees and engage him in battle on a level playing field and with an impartial referee.