MADRID, 14 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The amnesty law proposal approved in Congress would benefit the Catalan independence movement – 9-N and 1-O included -, the main leaders of Junts and ERC and their entourage, the 12 CDR prosecuted and those investigated by Tsunami Democràtic , among others. According to what the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, publicly stated, the rule would cover 372 people.
– Carles Puigdemont. The Junts leader and former Catalan president has three open fronts in the courts. In the Supreme Court, he is being prosecuted for crimes of disobedience and embezzlement for the illegal referendum of October 1, 2017. Instructor Pablo Llarena is waiting to take his investigatory statement in order to move forward towards trial. There is a national arrest warrant against him, but the euro warrant was deactivated.
He is also one of the 35 former senior Catalan officials who in November were tried in the Court of Accounts (TCu) for accounting liability derived from the alleged diversion of funds for the expenses of 1-O and the foreign action of the ‘procés’. The Prosecutor’s Office demands 3.1 million euros jointly and severally from them. Catalan Civil Society asks them for up to 5 million euros.
And, finally, the Supreme Court has opened a criminal case against him for possible crimes of terrorism framed in the riots caused by the independence platform Democratic Tsunami after the sentence of the ‘process’. The investigating magistrate Susana Polo is pending to cite him to declare as investigated.
– Oriol Junqueras. The ERC leader and former Catalan vice president was sentenced in 2019 by the Supreme Court (TS) to 13 years in prison and disqualification for sedition and embezzlement, although in June 2021 his prison sentence was pardoned. Last February, his sentence was changed to disobedience and embezzlement due to the penal reform that repealed sedition. He was also tried in the TCu.
– Artur Mas and Francesc Homs. The former president and his former advisor were sentenced by the TCu to return to the Generalitat just over 4.9 million euros (to which more than 1 million euros in interest were added) for the organization of the independence referendum on the 9th. November 2014. They are also in the case opened in the TCu for the expenses of 1-O and the foreign action of the ‘procés’.
– Toni Comín (Junts). The former Catalan councilor and MEP is being prosecuted in the Supreme Court for crimes of disobedience and embezzlement for 1-O. Llarena is also waiting to take his investigatory statement. He has a national search and arrest warrant against him. And he was another of those judged by the TCu.
– Clara Ponsatí (Junts). The former Catalan councilor and MEP is being prosecuted in the Supreme Court for disobedience over 1-O. After being arrested twice in Barcelona, ??Llarena was finally able to receive her investigative statement and conclude the summary. The Criminal Court still needs to rule on the next steps. In her case, she no longer has a national arrest warrant and, since she is accused of a crime without prison, it is not possible for her to issue a euro warrant. She is another of those judged by the TCu.
– Lluís Puig (Junts). The former Catalan councilor is being prosecuted in the Supreme Court for disobedience and embezzlement. The instructor of the ‘procés’ has also not been able to take an investigative statement from him, which is why he maintains the national arrest warrant against him for this purpose. He has also been tried by the TCu.
– Marta Rovira (ERC). The general secretary of ERC, who remains a fugitive in Belgium, is being prosecuted in the Supreme Court for disobedience over 1-O. Llarena maintains the national arrest warrant against her in order to receive her investigative statement and conclude the summary. In addition, she is being investigated in the National Court for ‘Tsunami Democràtic’.
– Raül Romeva (ERC), Jordi Turull (Junts) and Dolors Bassa (ERC). The three former councilors were sentenced by the TS to 12 years in prison and disqualification for sedition and embezzlement. The Government pardoned their prison sentence, but they remain disqualified for disobedience and embezzlement, the new qualification set by the Supreme Court after the penal reform that repealed sedition and modified embezzlement. They are part of those judged by the TCu.
– Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart. The former president of the Catalan National Assembly and that of Òmnium Cultural, respectively, were sentenced by the Supreme Court to 9 years in prison and disqualification for the crime of sedition. The Government also forgave their prison sentences and the Supreme Court reviewed their cases due to the aforementioned penal reform, replacing said crime with public disorder, a change that meant the extinction of their disqualifications. They are other of the courts in the TCu.
– Carme Forcadell (ERC), Josep Rull (Junts) and Joaquim Forn (Junts). The Supreme Court sentenced the former president of the Parliament and the former councilors to sentences of up to 11 and a half years in prison and disqualification for sedition. Their prison sentences were pardoned by the Government and their cases were examined after the latest change to the Penal Code, which meant replacing said crime with public disorder. This modification implied the total extinction of his disqualification sentences. They have also responded to the TCu.
-Anna Gabriel. The Supreme Court prosecuted the former CUP deputy in the Parliament for a crime of disobedience for her alleged participation in the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (DUI) of Catalonia. After remaining on the run in Switzerland, last year she appeared in the high court, which concluded a summary and sent the case to the Barcelona Court as she was no longer certified.
– Meritxell Serret. The Minister of Foreign Action of the Generalitat also surrendered to the Supreme Court, returning from Belgium in 2021 and last April she was sentenced by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) to one year of disqualification for a crime of disobedience for her participation in the organization and celebration of 1-O.
– Josep Lluís Alay and Xavier Vendrell. The head of Puigdemont’s office and the former ERC advisor are under investigation in a Barcelona Court for ‘Voloh’, the case in which the alleged diversion of public funds to the independence movement is investigated. They are also part of those charged in the AN for ‘Democratic Tsunami’.
– Natàlia Garriga, Josep María Jové and Lluís Salvadó. The Catalan Minister of Culture, the president of ERC in the Parliament and former Secretary General of the Vice-Presidency and Economy of the Generalitat, and the former Secretary of the Treasury of the Government, respectively, are awaiting trial in the TSJC for the preparations of the 1 -O.
-Miquel Buch. The former Minister of the Interior was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison for appointing police officer Lluís Escolà as a position of trust to escort Puigdemont abroad after the application of article 155 of the Constitution to Catalonia.
– Lluís Escolá. He was sentenced to 4 years in prison and 10 years of disqualification for embezzlement.
– The CDR: The AN proposed to try the 12 members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) prosecuted for a crime of belonging to a terrorist organization who, according to the judge, planned to occupy the Parliament of Catalonia and who participated in the cuts of roads or lifting of toll barriers.
– Democratic Tsunami: Judge Manuel García Castellón investigates the independence platform for the riots that it allegedly organized after the convictions for the ‘procés’ in 2019, and which ranged from the attempted assault of the El Prat airport, to the court of the La Jonquera border or the repeated protests with barricades in front of the Police Headquarters in Vía Layetana.
– ERC deputy in Parliament Ruben Wagensgberg, against whom the Supreme Court opened a case for alleged terrorism in the framework of ‘Democratic Tsunami’.
