A Spanish rapper whose three-and-a-half-year sentence for “glorifying terrorism” and insulting the crown caused an outcry said Wednesday he would defy authorities just a day before he was due in prison, amid reports he may have fled the country.
Jose Miguel Arenas Beltran — better known as Valtonyc — was sentenced last year for lyrics that Spain’s National Court felt warranted prison, and the Supreme Court upheld this in February.
Lyrics included: “Let them be as frightened as a police officer in the Basque Country” and “the king has a rendez-vous at the village square, with a noose around his neck.”
The reference to the Basque Country hinted at violence by ETA, the separatist group that for decades staged scores of attacks across Spain that left hundreds of officials and civilians dead.
The 24-year-old also sang against Jorge Campos, the former president of the Balearic Circle, a foundation that fought against the imposition of the Catalan language in the…
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