Anna Gabriel denies disobedience and hopes the case will be filed or sent to Barcelona

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The former Catalan deputy to the CUP anna gabrielspokesperson for this party in parliament in the legislature of the 1-O and escape in Switzerland has denied for more than four years before the judge of the High Council paul larena that he disobeyed the constitution because he did not receive any demands from the court.

Gabriel appeared before Llarena this morning to deliver the investigative statement, formally informing him of his prosecution for a crime of disobedience, which does not carry a prison sentence, but rather a fine and removal from employment or public office for up to up to two years. .

Legal sources have reported that the former MEP has flatly denied receiving a personal request from the Constitutional Court to ban certain issues in Parliament, for which denies that he has committed a crime of disobedience.

The former deputy has thus responded to the only question the Public Prosecution Service has asked her, because the state attorney and Vox, who make popular accusations, have refused to answer.

So the appearance hardly lasted 15 minutes and now the magistrate must issue an order to finalize the summary and refer the case to the lower house of the Supreme Court to review the proceedings, which will presumably end in a criminal court in Catalonia, as it is no longer a public indictment .

On her departure from the Supreme Court, the former deputy said that “the principles remain intact as there is no other way” and thanked the support “to the supportive people who stood on the side of all the fined, persecuted people” and who “the justice should never have taken place”.

Visibly moved because “it has been 4 and a half years away from home”, Gabriel, who does not intend to settle in Spain but will continue to live in Switzerland where he has personal and militant obligations, did not want to answer the journalists’ questions and only He limited himself to making a brief statement.

As usual with the quotes of pro-independence politicians, the former deputy has been accompanied to the gates of the Supreme Court by sympathizers and pro-sovereignty leaders, including María Sirvent (CUP), Oriol Junqueras (ERC) and Josep Rius (JxCat); as well as deputies Jaume Asens (United We Can), Gabriel Rufián (ERC), Mireia Vehí and Albert Botran (CUP), Josep Pagès (Junts), Jon Iñarritu and Mertxe Aizpurua (EH Bildu) and Néstor Rego (BNG); and Senators Sara Bailac, Mirella Cortès and Adelina Escandell, among others. Òmnium Cultural president, Xavier Antich, has also come to show his support.

The return of Gabriel, a symbol of the pro-independence he left behind for his leading role as the visible face of the CUP in parliament during the legislature’s unilateral referendum on October 1, 2017, surprised Catalan political forces, including the government itself I was not aware of its plans for a comeback.

Gabriel, who fled to Switzerland in 2018 shortly before he was prosecuted, appeared in the Supreme Court in July to regularize his situation along with his lawyer Iñigo Iruin, the same who defends the former minister Meritxell Serret, who was the first to be heard in court a year ago. the case returning to Spain to make herself available to court after fleeing to Belgium in 2018.

Anna Gabriel is being prosecuted for a crime of disobedience for her participation in Catalonia’s independence process in 2017 and was the only Catalan independence leader to flee abroad who was not subject to an international or European arrest warrant, as the crime does not carry a prison sentence.