No prison sentence for Alvarez, father and son, for trying to put up a banner in San Sebastian
- On Wednesday morning, the prosecutor and the defense met and reached an agreement. Father and son Joseba and Eñaut Álvarez tried to place a large canvas that pointed to the House on the eve of San Sebastián in San Sebastián’s Plaza Nueva from side to side of the roof. They have been released from the two-and-a-half and one-and-a-half year prison sentences demanded of them as a result of the gang tour with the police there, and they will have to pay a fine.
"The process has ended, they have had to withdraw, the accusation of attacking the authority has fallen because it had no basis, and they have not even been able to introduce a prison sentence. Everything will go to a fine. They have tried to impose a ban on access to the Plaza Nueva for two years, but even this has not been approved by the judge and we estimate that they will impose a fine of about 5,000 euros. The banner, therefore, has cost us a little bit, but we will continue to put up banners, make political propaganda and fight," said Eñaut Álvarez in front of dozens of people who have expressed their support outside the court recently, with satisfaction.
It is said that "everything has been a police assembly of the Municipal Police of San Sebastián". The news of his conviction came three months after the events occurred, and Joseba Álvarez denounces: "They had nothing against us."
In an interview with journalist Leire Ibar last week:
"If we look at the reason for the accusation, according to the judicial file, we are accused of having made a "superficial abrasion" of a finger. The finger is not twisted or broken, the local police do not report any blows. When there is only one violation in the legal report, the accusation of the attack indicates that we did not use violence. This is established by the fact that there was a sokatira with the rope of the banner, the rope of the banner went from side to side from the square, pulling us from one side and they pulled us from the other side. It is clear that the only attack that was there was the one they made, we worked hard to put the banner, we didn’t attack them. A police assembly has been organized to punish us with this incident and remove us from the circuit. It is true that we ignored them and committed disobedience, because to put a political banner with freedom of expression you don’t have to ask permission. We admit that we resisted, but that there was no attack at all."
The Municipal Police of San Sebastián have come to demand prison sentences of two and a half years and a year and a half, but they are satisfied with the agreement reached with the prosecutor.
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