They planned to occupy the Parliament, entrench themselves for a week and “defend it later”
The Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court has asked to impose sentences of between 8 and 27 years in prison on 12 members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) for a crime of belonging to a terrorist organization, also accusing eight of them of possession crimes. , deposit and manufacture of explosives and damage, in a case that will be affected by the amnesty.
In his indictment, collected by Europa Press, prosecutor Miguel Ángel Carballo maintains that the accused joined a Tactical Response Team (ERT), a group of people from different CDRs who would have formed a parallel, clandestine terrorist organization. and stable, whose objective would be to carry out violent actions or attacks with explosives and incendiary substances.
Specifically, the prosecutor asks to sentence Eduardo Garzón, Esther García, Sonia Pascual, Queralt Casoliva, Germinal Tomás, Alexis Codina, Jordi Ros and Rafael Delgado to 27 years in prison for crimes of belonging to a terrorist organization; possession, storage or manufacture of explosives; and havoc, the latter in an attempted degree. For them, the Public Ministry also requests a measure of supervised release for eight years.
Regarding the other defendants, the Prosecutor’s Office requests 8 years in prison for Ferrán Jolis, Xavier Buigas, David Budria and Clara Borrero solely for the crime of belonging to a terrorist organization.
For all the accused, the Prosecutor’s Office requests legal accessories and also sentences of absolute disqualification, special disqualification for educational profession or trade, in the areas of teaching, sports and free time, for a period of time greater than ten years than the duration of the sentence. of deprivation of liberty imposed.
It is worth remembering that the amnesty law explains that only “acts classified as terrorist crimes punishable in Chapter VII of Title XXII of the Penal Code are excluded from it as long as a final sentence has been handed down”, so the 12 CDR could take advantage of it.
In his writing, the prosecutor relates that “as a consequence of the illegal self-determination referendum of October 1, 2017 (1-O), within Catalan society, with independence aspirations, expectations were generated in relation to the achievement of the secession of Catalonia from the Spanish State and the constitution of a Catalan republic.”
“The classic pro-independence organizations were joined by a new actor who called himself the CDR. The CDR’s activity contributed great dynamism to the street mobilization, being key to the planning and execution of simple actions (graffiti) and complex actions (general strikes, country courts, etc.)”, he details.
After 1-O, “after the days had passed and, after observing that the people’s mandate was not implemented”, consisting of “constituting Catalonia in a republic independent of the Spanish State, the CDR, which brought together the most dynamic and active independence militants , organized numerous acts and actions of a very diverse nature throughout the Catalan geography, some of the CDR’s actions reaching criminal character, there being abundant criminal proceedings against CDR militants who had participated in illegal actions and activities.
The prosecutor continues by pointing out that, “although initially the reason for the creation of the CDR was to ensure the holding of the referendum, in reality said groups or structures were conceived with a purpose that intended an existence beyond the aforementioned date, which meant adoption of the original idea of ??Poble Lliure”.
“In this way, we are faced with groups composed of a plurality of people whose objective is to subvert the constitutional order in a material way, through a planned and organized strategy. This intention is manifested through the refusal to follow the channels legally established by the Rule of Law for political and social demands,” he says.
THE SPIN-OFF OF THE GROUP
The ERT, specifically, “is a cell made up of the accused, a small group of individuals from different CDRs who show great radicalism.” “The creation of this cell is motivated by the need to have, within the structure of the CDR, a clandestine group of individuals of the utmost trust and who are totally dedicated to the cause,” he says.
The prosecutor maintains that the accused “share radical activism to achieve independence”, and “their ultimate objective as an organization was to achieve the independence of Catalonia, using violence in its maximum expression, thereby coercively forcing the institutions to grant through deeds the separation of Catalonia from the rest of Spain.”
Along these lines, he points out that the members of the ERT “have had an active participation in the materialization of some of the most forceful actions that the CDR have carried out to date”, such as “road blocks or the pouring of oil on the road of the C-55 in a place of mandatory passage for the procession that transported the prisoners from the Lledoners Penitentiary Center”, as well as the “raising of the toll barriers”.
THE ASSAULT ON THE PARLIAMENT
Furthermore, the “accused participated in the creation and development of the CECOR (coordination center) for the actions of the CDR, assuming the assignment received from a so-called Catalan CNI to provide the necessary logistical infrastructure in order to undertake an action in which was intended to occupy the Parliament of Catalonia, and subsequently defend it, all given the technical and human capacity of the aforementioned group, because to carry out the same, significant knowledge of illicit and clandestine secured telecommunications networks would be necessary, as well as a important mobilization capacity”.
“As accredited details of the aforementioned plan, the occupation would be carried out through the main door of the Parliament since, supposedly, access would be facilitated from the inside. Together with a small group of people, they would cooperate with the group called CNI, and they would be in charge “the rental of properties and premises that would provide them with security and the establishment of administration bases, to remain inside the building for at least a week, setting up long-distance antennas to maintain communications, all of this under a budget estimated at 6,000 euros.” , Add.
The Prosecutor’s Office makes it clear that “the accused formed a hierarchical structure, with distribution of roles and specializations, equipped with the appropriate means and a desire to permanence to commit criminal acts such as those described, taking advantage of the contacts fostered within the militancy in the CDR, constituted a cell that raised the intensity and nature of the actions carried out to a higher level.
Thus, and as members of the ERT, all of them “would have surpassed the activity within the respective CDR and formed a parallel terrorist organization, of a clandestine and stable nature, whose objective would be to carry out violent actions or attacks against previously selected targets using “the explosives and/or incendiary substances manufactured in the two clandestine laboratories that the organization itself had installed in two private homes”.
