BILBAO, 11 Nov. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The member of the Secretariat of Judges for Democracy and magistrate of the Provincial Court of Vizcaya, Edmundo Rodríguez Achútegui, considers that the Government’s proposal to repeal the current crime of sedition is “a consequence of the need to modernize crimes against order whose regulation dates back to the 19th century and is completely outdated”.
For Rodríguez Achútegui, modern European democracies updated “the 19th-century regulation of these criminal offences” during the second half of the 20th century, something that did not happen in Spain “because the Franco regime maintained 19th-century provisions that did not meet the standards required international conventions” that the country has signed since the transition.
In statements to Europa Press, the magistrate explained that the current regulation in these matters “is not similar to that of the rest of the countries of Europe”, and this is confirmed by “the great difficulties that the German or Belgian courts encounter in dealing with the requirements of the Supreme Court to arrest Puigdemont”.
In addition, he has stated that, although the issue is sub judice in the Court of Justice of the European Union, “it is necessary to update a group of crimes that have outdated regulations, and that do not respond to the current parameters of guarantees of our State of Law”.
