National Court judge Joaquín Gadea investigating whether there are links between those allegedly responsible for the attempted “boycott”. made against the passage of the Cycling Tour in the region of Solsonès (Lleida) on August 28 and the self-proclaimed Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR).
The magistrate opened the proceedings after receiving a report from the General Information Commissariat of the National Police in which he reported the events that took place in the aforementioned region, where A group of people tried to dump about 400 liters of “apparently flammable and slippery material” on the C-55 highway.
These are still preliminary proceedings, legal sources explained to EFE, aimed at determining the possible jurisdiction of the National Court to investigate the facts.
For the judge, that attempted sabotage was a “perfectly planned and organized act” contextualized within the framework of a “boycott campaign.” against the Vuelta that is abundantly publicized in the social networks of radical groups with a pro-independence ideology, taking advantage of the international showcase represented by cycling the Vuelta to draw attention to the cause.”
Gadea explained that in recent weeks, the self-proclaimed CDR “They clearly and directly encouraged and suggested boycott and interruption in social networks. of the stages of the Vuelta that passed through Catalonia”.
The judge cited the origin of the CDR, “transversal groups of an independence nature”, which appeared a few months before October 1, 2017 to “ensure the holding” of the referendum, declared illegal, and referred to them as “a structured organization of a transversal nature, which aims to unite the entire independence movement, and at the same time hierarchical”.
Because it is an organization where “there are precedents for investigating its actions” At the National Court – eleven alleged members are being prosecuted in this court for terrorism crimes for allegedly planning violent actions in 2019 -, Judge Gadea agreed to open the proceedings and gather information “before making any decision on the court’s jurisdiction.” investigate the facts.
Police asked to report on “connection of persons apparently responsible” for CDR sabotage attempt and any other data related to “the inclusion of those under investigation in this organization”, and requests to conduct an investigation if the four detained for attempting to boycott the Vuelta “appear to be related to other investigations related to the CDR” .
For the magistrate, “it is easy to appreciate the disastrous results which the installed system seeks to produce and It is not difficult to imagine that the desire to cause harm to an indefinite number of people guided the authors of the action”.
The device, consisting of two drums of 200 liters each, filled with a black liquid that emits the smell of burning motor oil and gasoline, joined by an irrigation pipe, “is based on a sophisticated mechanism that hidden in the finished plants.in the hose that will pour the liquid on the aforementioned road.
Source: La Verdad
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