BarcelonaSeven and a half years and two and a half years. These are the last two sentences that two demonstrators have received for different mobilizations during the Process. Sentences that arrived in November, in the midst of a judicial offensive against the amnesty. The judges’ crusade against this measure does not only affect pro-independence leaders, demonstrators are also suffering. At least this is how Alerta Solidària sees it, which defends the majority of these young people and attributes it to the political context.
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“These are sentences that on other occasions would have been acquittals due to the high number of contradictions of the police officers testifying and which are now condemnatory under the conviction that the amnesty will fix it,” explains the spokesman of this anti-repressive organization, Martí Mayoral, in a conversation with ARA. “There is a will to punish on the part of the judges, who see, in anger, how they continue to judge demonstrators who believe they will later be acquitted”, he adds.
Mayoral reveals that they had never encountered a similar situation: “In the last few days, there have been various hasty prison sentences unprecedented in the previous months and years.” He talks about the cases of Oleksandr, from Arenys de Mar, or Joan, from Alt Empordà. On November 23, the Court of Barcelona sentenced the young man from Arén to 7 and a half years in prison for having thrown a pyrotechnic device, which was not located or defined in the trial, and for causing hearing injuries to two National Police officers in a protest against the judgment of the Process in Barcelona. The defense will present an appeal to the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, because it considers that it is a “disproportionate punishment” while criticizing that “the main proof of charge” is only “the statement of the agents”, as established by the sentence.
The sentence that has just been given to John has been less severe, accused of flogging a group of Spanish supporters who gathered on October 9, 2020 to support the king on the occasion of a visit to Barcelona. The man from Emporda has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison for having drawn a cross with black spray on the Spanish flag that one of the demonstrators was carrying on his back, while “pushing and kicking” her and insulted her, according to the judge. The young man, who denies any act of harassment of the monarchist protesters, because he says the police separated the two sides, denied during the trial that the police intervened with the spray when he identified him, contradicting the officers.
Terrorism by the CDR
The indictment against the CDR members of the Judes operation has also now been made public. The Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court requests 27 years in prison for eight of them for the crimes of belonging to a terrorist organization, possession of explosive substances of a terrorist nature and attempted destruction and for four other defendants, eight years for the first crime “They press the accelerator,” denounces Majoral, who recalls that the defenses have “suffered four years of instruction full of obstacles and obstructions by the same judge who we can now see how he is searching with the instruction of the case of Democratic Tsunami”. It refers to the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón, who has become a battering ram of the right against the amnesty. Alerta Solidària also includes in this trend the two sentences against William and Andreu, the two young men sentenced to prison for the protests for the imprisonment of the rapper Pablo Hasél, although they will remain outside the scope of the amnesty
2023-12-10 11:37:11
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