He replies that the crime of rebellion has not been touched upon when questioned if the repeal of sedition leaves the State unprotected.
MADRID, 11 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Justice, Pilar Llop, assured this Friday that the future of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, who was prosecuted in absentia and remains on the run abroad, will depend on how the courts interpret the new Penal Code.
This is how the head of Justice has pronounced in statements to the press after the PSOE and United We Can have presented in Congress a proposal for an organic law to eliminate the crime of sedition and modify the crime of public disorder.
Asked if he believes that the events for which the ‘procés’ leaders were convicted fit into the new article on aggravated public disorder or if in this new scenario Puigdemont could face a crime of rebellion, Llop has stated that he is not leaving to pronounce on “hypotheses” or “futurities”.
The minister has assured that what happens with Puigdemont or with those convicted of the ‘procés’ “will be an issue that must be resolved in court.” “I respect the courts in how they later make their interpretations of the law that is approved,” she has said.
The head of Justice has stressed that the proposal raised this Friday “was something that should have been done for a long time.” And she has insisted that what has been done is “standardize to improve judicial cooperation with neighboring countries”, while underlining the proposal of the PSOE and United We Can serves to “adapt us to the 21st century”.
Thus, Llop has defended the Government led by Sánchez “has always opted for the path of dialogue and coexistence in Catalonia.”
Asked if she believes that the State is “more unprotected” in the face of an attempted rebellion, the minister assured that “there are different tools” in the legislation, while stressing that “the crime of rebellion has not been touched” in the proposal presented by the PSOE and United We Can.
“What has been done is that sedition is now considered an aggravated crime of public disorder. There are other tools of a political nature: there is article 155, the dialogue tables and the dialogue itself between the political forces,” he added. .
