The Public Prosecution Service has already sent its written preliminary conclusions in this case to the Criminal Chamber. “The ultimate goal as an organization was to achieve the independence of Catalonia, using violence to the maximum extent possible,” said prosecutor Miguel Ángel Carballo.
The Office of the State Attorney General of the National audience has demanded between 8 and 27 years in prison for terrorism for twelve members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR), who have been investigated for belonging to “a radicalized faction” of these groups that allegedly planned “sabotage or violent actions ” in Catalonia headquarters officials in 2019 in protest against the trial ruling.
The Public Prosecution Service has already sent its preliminary conclusions in this case to the Criminal Chamber, in which it accuses eight of the people surveyed of a crime of membership of a terrorist organizationanother one of possession, storage and manufacture of explosive substances or devicesand a third of attempted terrorist attacks.
He asks for the highest sentences for the eight people investigated, 27 years in prisonwhile for the other four he is asking for eight years in prison for membership of a terrorist organization, in the context of an investigation that could fall under the future amnesty law, which is in the parliamentary procedure.
“Its ultimate goal as an organization was to achieve the independence of Catalonia, using force in the maximum form, forcibly forcing the institutions to, through actions, allow the separation of Catalonia from the rest of Spain .”, states the prosecutor of the case, Miguel Ángel Carballo, in his 61-page document.
The members of this “radicalized faction, called Tactical Response Team (ERT)”, had “active participation” in the materialization of some of the CDR’s “most powerful” actions.
Among them, the prosecutor mentions roadblocks, an oil spill on the road of the C-55 in a mandatory passage for the procession that transported the prisoners of the trial from the Lledoners prison center, or the removal of toll barriers.
For their part, the Defense Committees of the Republic They responded to the letter from the Public Prosecution Service via the networks. “Through the Public Prosecution Service, the amnesty PSOE continues to apply state terrorism to those prosecuted for Operation Judas,” they stated. “Meanwhile, the parties are whitewashing Spain for public opinion and for Europe,” she added.
Source: EITB
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