The majority of those prosecuted in the case were arrested in September 2019 in what was known as Operation Judas for allegedly planning violent actions in view of the October 1 anniversary and the Supreme Court ruling against the sovereigntist leaders of the ‘process’.
The Criminal Chamber of the National Court has confirmed the conclusion of the summary and agreed to open an oral trial against the twelve members of the so-called Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR), who are being prosecuted for membership of a terrorist organization.
The magistrates of the Third Department thus endorse the decision of the investigating judge Manuel García Castellón in the so-called ‘Operation Judas’, carried out in September 2019 and during which the majority of those prosecuted in this case were arrested, for allegedly planning actions. violent given the anniversary of October 1, the date on which the Catalan independence referendum, which was declared illegal, was held two years earlier; and the Supreme Court’s ruling against the sovereigntist leaders of the ‘trials’.
The magistrate linked the detainees to the so-called Tactical Response Team (ERT), a cell made up of individuals from various CDRs with “great radicalism” who wanted to achieve the independence of Catalonia by force.
Several defendants appealed to the Criminal Chamber against the conclusion of the summary and requested that investigative procedures be carried out which the magistrates considered unnecessary in some cases, although they pointed out that other matters could be agreed upon during the hearing.
In addition, the Criminal Chamber rejects the request for an archive submitted by three of the defendants who claimed that there was no evidence of the commission of a crime for membership of a terrorist organization.
In a statement, the left-wing pro-independence organization Alerta Solidaria and the Support Group for the Suspects denounced the courts’ “rush” to bring the case to trial before the amnesty takes effect, and this is one of the open Affairs. at the National Court, which could be amenable to being framed in a future amnesty law currently under intense debate between the PSOE and its parliamentary partners.
“The National Court defines its own profile and is committed to prosecuting and ending one of the nastiest state operations of repression against the Catalan independence movement. Judging the members of the CDRs for non-existent terrorism is the narrative that gives meaning to the entire brutal repressive machinery,” the statement laments.
Source: EITB
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