The Public Prosecution Service is asking for a total of more than 20 years in prison for the Tubacex protests

That’s what the company’s employees explained today most trials for the Tubacex strike already have a date. Specifically, the first will take place next Thursday, June 15, at 10:15 a.m., in Vitoria-Gasteiz, while dates are set for the next one in September. So they have a concentration before the day of the first trial, Thursday, at 09:30 in front of the Vitoria-Gasteiz court.

At next week’s trial, the employees indicated that one of their colleagues is facing a request for 21 months in prison Due to the protests that took place on February 23, 2021 at the entrance of Tubacex. In the press conference, they also recalled that their partner had a permanent arm injury due to the moment of his arrest by the Ertzaintza. They emphasize that that day the The actions of the officers were “very violent” and they charge that they acted particularly violently to arrest this laborer at noon, “despite the fact that most moments of suspense had ended by morning.”

In this sense, they have regretted that the actions of the Ertzaintza, the interventions carried out today against the protests of the Ertzainas and against the Tubacex staff, have been strikingly different.

In the case of the September cases, the employees of other companies in Valle de Ayalaagainst which the prosecution requests four years and seven months out of prison.

Likewise, to all these judgments we must that of the two other Tubacex employees that are still pending. In total, the Public Prosecution Service, adding up all requests, is asking for a sentence of more than 20 years in prison. However, during a press conference, the concentrates reminded that in the first trial for the Tubacex strike held last year, the accused has been a worker acquitted by the judge. Not only that, but in a revealing ruling, the judge made the lies of the Ertzaintzathey add.

In connection with the petitions, Tubacex employees are urging that the petitions from the Attorney General’s Office attract the attention of both company employees and non-employees. With regard to the latter, they have regretted that it is over excessive punishments and they have denounced being part of the Ertzaintza’s repeated attempts to symbolize that the incidents that occurred during the protests came from people outside the strike. In that sense, they have the “police meeting and criminalization” suffered by those who expressed solidarity with the strike.

In addition to the requests for imprisonment, they have the “invisible oppression” derived from the Gag law at the municipal police of Llodio it has imposed two fines of 3,000 euros and the Ertzaintza has processed others of thousands of euros.