The Catalan Association of Victims of Terrorist Organizations (ACVOT) and the rest of the popular accusations have presented before the National Court their indictment in the case opened against the 12 members of the so-called Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) prosecuted for belonging to terrorist organization and, in it, they request penalties that reach 33 years in prison.
In the document, to which Europa Press has had access, he attributes to the defendants 12 crimes of belonging to a terrorist organization; 8 crimes of possession, storage and manufacture of explosive and flammable substances or devices or their components of a terrorist nature; and 8 crimes of havoc, of a terrorist nature and attempted. It should be remembered that this case is affected by the amnesty law, so once it comes into force the defendants would fall under it.
Specifically, it requests sentences of 33 years in prison for the defendants Eduardo Garzón, Jordi Ros, Alexis Codina, Germinal Tomás Abueso, Esther García Canet, Sonia Pascual, Queralt Casoliva and Rafael Joaquín Delgado, while for Ferrán Jolis, Xabier Biugas, David Budria and Clara Borrero are sentenced to 8 years in prison.
The document, which reviews the role of each of the defendants in the actions investigated by the Central Court of Instruction number 6, focuses on their “criminal” nature and that they pursued the secession of Catalonia through the organization of actions “of a criminal-terrorist nature.”
As he explains, this organization was “stable and permanent over time” and was configured and sustained by the conjunction of groups and individuals with specifically defined roles and functions that were related in a hierarchical and coordinated manner “showing a unity in direction and execution in their actions for the purpose of committing crimes.”
The popular accusation also highlights that within the criminal organization of the CDR, each of the accused individuals “was affiliated with a ‘local commission’, carrying out their actions within the scope of a locality or town and in addition, they were part of what is known as the Tactical Response Team (ERT), which emerged “to achieve the independence of Catalonia by any means, including violent ones, as they themselves stated.”
They remember that this subgroup was “smaller and clandestine with centralized management, exercising reactionary and subversive activism, willing to carry out, cooperate or facilitate activities classified as more radical or sensitive.”
The origin: the Catalan conflict
To understand the emergence of these groups, the accusation in its provisional conclusions indicates that the origin must be sought in “the so-called Catalan conflict” in which the “skills such as teaching (…) to generate a favorable breeding ground for secessionist theses, which sometimes led to supremacist behavior.”
This, he points out, caused “the radicalization of people from different contexts, who most likely, in imitation of what happened in other parts of Spain they decided to take the step towards violent actions.
“A current of groups and small groups was formed, whether official or unofficial to the Catalan independence political authorities, which acted in an organized, coordinated and planned manner so that at a given moment, with their actions, they subverted the constitutional order and altered social peace. and create a climate of terror and insecurity in the streets of all of Catalonia and especially in the capital, Barcelona,” he adds.
After reviewing each of the actions planned by the defendants, which would range from the road closure to be planned until the seizure of Parliament Once the republic was proclaimed, the accusation substantiates that there was a terrorist crime by resorting to jurisprudence.
And, ahead of the trial, it requests not only the testimony of the accused, but also the testimony of up to a dozen Civil Guard agents and several experts, in addition to adhering to what was requested by the Public Ministry.
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It is worth remembering that last November the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court requested sentences of between 8 and 27 years in prison for the 12 CDR for a crime of belonging to a terrorist organization, also attributing crimes of possession, storage and manufacturing to eight of them. of explosives and havoc.
Although the procedure continues, this is one of the causes that will be affected by the proposed amnesty law that is pending in the chambers.