The trial against the Catalan independentists awaiting the judgment, starting on Wednesday
- The trial of the twelve defendants was held at session 52 of 12 June, in which the facts of 1 October will be analysed. The trial began on 12 February and a total of 422 witnesses have since been brought before the jury. The case remains to be resolved and it is expected that it will not arrive until after the summer.
The president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, and the spokesperson of the Govern ment, Meritxell Budó, have also attended.
The defenders of the defendants have spoken at the last session of the National Hearing. The lawyer of the president of Òmnium Cultural, Jordi Cuixart, for example, defended the mobilizations that took place in autumn 2017 and stressed: “The unity of Spain cannot mean the sacrifice of fundamental rights.” For her part, the lawyer of former President of the Parlament, Carme Forcadell, has accused the Prosecutor’s Office of exaggerating and inventing things that are not true.
The defendants have the opportunity to speak at the last session, which will put an end to the oral trial. Nine of the twelve detainees are in prison, for whom the Public Prosecutor's Office requests penalties of between 16 and 25 years ' imprisonment for crimes of rebellion and embezzlement. The other three detainees face 7 years ' imprisonment for misappropriation and disobedience of three of them.
The spokesman for the Judges for Democracy, Ignacio González Vega, pointed out that disobedience is evident, but he added that the fundamental element remains unclear after the case: whether there was violence or not. The key is violence to argue that this is a crime of rebellion.
Read Xabier Letona's analysis: Strong punishments on the horizon.
Walk from a train station, two friends and a hug. This hug will be frozen until the next meeting. I'll come home, he'll stay there. There, too, will be free the painful feeling that injustice wants us to catch. Jesús Rodríguez (Santa Coloma de Gramenet, 1974) is a journalist,... [+]
