Josep Ramon Bosch

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Josep Ramon Bosch i codina
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Born1963
Santpedor
OccupationPolitical activist and entrepreneur
Political partyPeople's Party (Spain)

Josep Ramon Bosch i Codina (born in Santpedor in 1963) is a businessman and Spanish Catalan political activist focused on supporting Spanish nationalism. He belonged to the People's Party (PP). He is the founder of Somatemps, [1] [2] a far-right group that defends "the Hispanic identity of Catalonia", and presided the unionist platform of the Catalan Civil Society (2014-2015). [3] He has also participated in La Contra Deportiva, an online newspaper dedicated to RCD Espanyol, led by General Secretary of Platform for Catalonia, Roberto Hernando. [4] Currently he is in charge of convincing Manuel Valls for campaigning in 2019 Spain's local elections as a Citizen's candidate. [5] [6]

In September 2015 he was accused of maintaining a channel on YouTube where he uploaded videos of far-right ideological content under the pseudonym of Josep Codina. [7] Shortly afterwards, he announced his resignation as president of the Catalan Civil Society alleging personal motives. [8] Two weeks before, a lawsuit against Josep Ramon Bosch had been filed for the insults and threats that he should have made from an anonymous Facebook profile. [8] [9] In court, he refused to declare [10] and finally the case was archived for having prescribed the offense. [11] Involved in the same timeline were publications of fascist videos with his voice under a false Facebook account which he owned. [12] Bosch has also participated in acts of the Francisco Franco National Foundation. Societat Civil Catalana, which at the time Bosch presided, claimed he was accompanying his father. [13]

Josep has contributed to the prologue of the book "El hijo de la Africana" (The son of the African) written by Pau Guix. [14] [15]

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References

  1. ↑ ""Yo soy español, español, español..."". El Temps (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  2. ↑ "Quién está detrás de las asociaciones que han sacado a la calle a miles de ciudadanos por España y por Catalunya" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  3. ↑ "Societat Civil Catalana vaticina que hi haurà "molta gent" a la V de la Diada". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  4. ↑ "La trama ultracatòlica i els seus mitjans afins contra la República catalana". El Temps (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  5. ↑ "'Operación Manuel Valls', el proyecto secreto para derrotar al populismo y el independentismo". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  6. ↑ "Josep Ramon Bosch asesora a Manuel Valls". ElNacional.cat (in Spanish). 9 July 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-19. Josep Ramon Bosch i Codina es el factótum encargado de convencer a Manuel Valls para que encabece la lista "constitucionalista" por Barcelona en las municipales del 2019.
  7. ↑ Món, El. "El president de SCC penja vídeos de propaganda feixista amb la seva pròpia veu a Youtube". El Món. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  8. 1 2 "Societat Civil Catalana destituye a su presidente tras el escándalo de los insultos". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-05-09.
  9. ↑ "El president de Societat Civil Catalana dimiteix després de la querella per amenaces al Facebook". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  10. ↑ "El expresidente de SCC se niega a declarar en el juicio por amenazas". La Vanguardia. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  11. ↑ "S'arxiva la causa contra l'expresident de Societat Civil Catalana perquè el presumpte delicte d'injúries ha prescrit". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  12. ↑ NacióManresa. "Josep Ramon Bosch també va penjar vídeos feixistes a un canal de Youtube" (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  13. ↑ NacióDigital. "Societat Civil reconeix que Bosch va assistir a un acte de la Fundació Franco" (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-03-31.
  14. ↑ "Pau Guix presenta hoy 'El hijo de la Africana' en Madrid arropado por Joaquín Tamames, Ferrer-Dalmau, Bosch y Fidalgo". El Catalán (in European Spanish). 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  15. ↑ Saliralaire. "5-Ab. Presentación "El hijo de la africana"". Saliralaire. Archived from the original on 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
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