Requests that aggravated public disorder be added to the age of 12, which can lead to disobedience and embezzlement, punishable by up to 5

MADRID, 17 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The prosecutors of the ‘procés’ have requested this Tuesday the instructor, Pablo Llarena, to add the crime of aggravated public disorder to those of disobedience and aggravated embezzlement that he already contemplated in his car to adapt the prosecution and the search and arrest warrants to the penal reform, which would mean adding up to 5 years in prison to the 12 that could be imposed for the crimes pointed out by the magistrate of the Supreme Court (TS).

Puigdemont was prosecuted and claimed for crimes of sedition and embezzlement, which implied penalties of between 10 and 15 years in prison and disqualification, and from 2 to 12 years in prison and 6 to 20 years of disqualification, respectively.

Llarena had to modify the prosecution and the arrest warrants issued against Puigdemont due to the penal reform that repeals sedition and modifies embezzlement by creating attenuated rates, which entered into force last Thursday.

That same day, the ‘procés’ instructor issued an order replacing sedition with disobedience, a crime that does not carry a prison sentence, but a fine of 3 to 12 months and disqualification from 6 months to 2 years, and maintaining aggravated embezzlement , punished with up to 12 years in prison and 20 years of disqualification.

The Supreme Prosecutor’s Office is now interested in Llarena that, in addition to the crimes of disobedience and aggravated embezzlement, pursue Puigdemont for the new type of aggravated public disorder in article 557.1 and 2 of the Penal Code (CP), with sanctions of up to 5 years jail and 8 disqualification.

If the magistrate of the TS attends to the prosecutor’s request, Puigdemont could face up to 17 years in prison — 12 for aggravated embezzlement and 5 for aggravated public disorder.

However, in the scenario that he was finally handed over to Spain, it would be the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court that would decide the judicial future of Puigdemont, as well as -in his case- the game between the crimes established and the computation of sorrows

Former counselor Toni Comín is in the same situation as the former president, although the other fugitives from 1-O face different criminal horizons, based on the modification agreed by Llarena and the request of the Public Prosecutor.

Thus, the former councilor and MEP of Junts Clara Ponsatí was only prosecuted for sedition, for which Llarena is now prosecuting her solely for disobedience, and the Prosecutor’s Office urges adding the crime of aggravated public disorder, with which she would face up to 5 years from jail.

As for former counselor Lluis Puig, he has also been prosecuted for disobedience and embezzlement, but in his case the Public Ministry does not ask that the crime of aggravated public disorder be added to him, for which he could go up to 12 years in prison.

Finally, for the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, also previously prosecuted for a crime of sedition, the prosecutors of the ‘procés’ share with Llarena their “exclusive charge for disobedience”, without aggravated public disorder and, consequently, without jail.