The Public Ministry does not consider the crime of terrorism but of public disorder
MADRID, 6 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court will appeal the order of the judge of the National Court who agrees to direct the investigation into Democratic Tsunami against the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, considering that the cause of the riots that followed The Supreme Court ruling that condemned the leaders of the Catalan independence process in the fall of 2019 should be heard in Barcelona.
Prosecutor’s sources have confirmed to Europa Press that the Public Ministry will appeal the resolution of Judge Manuel García Castellón because it believes that the facts do not fit into crimes of terrorism, but rather public disorder, and due to the disappearance of the crime of sedition, two issues of legal qualification that would make the AN lose its competence.
The same sources explain that, before the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 issued this order, the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court itself was already preparing a report in which it requested that the investigation leave this court in response to the information. police officers involved in the case.
It was this same Monday when the magistrate issued that order in which, in addition to directing the investigation against Puigdemont and charging Rovira, he also assured that “there are sufficient elements to consider that the facts could fit into the crime of terrorism” in contest with one of public disorders.
“The analysis of the facts presented does not allow us to exclude, in any way, that Tsunami could be considered a terrorist group, and it must be clarified whether its actions materialized with any of the crimes of article 573 CP,” details the judge. It includes crimes, among others, against life or physical integrity, attacks and possession, trafficking and storage of weapons, ammunition or explosives.
It should be remembered that the AN was studying whether it could retain the case due to doubts surrounding this legal classification and due to the presence of two authorized persons: the aforementioned Carles Puigdemont and the ERC deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia Rubén Wagensberg.
