Dozens of independentistas wrap Laura Borràs at the gates of the TSJC

The president of Junts per Catalunya, Laura Borrashas arrived at her trial before the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) accompanied by her squires from Junts, among them, the deputies Francesc de Dalmases, Aurora Madaula and Jaume Alonso Cuevillasas well as the ‘expresident’ Quim Torra. And she has agreed to the court together with her daughter and her husband. But the concentration, which has taken place in Paseo de Lluís Companys, is measured more by absences than by presences.

The most outstanding plan, that of the mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, who despite expressing “all” his support for the party leader, stated that his job “is not to go to these things”, but to “win the elections”. Nor has any representative of ERC, or the CUP, or any institutional position of the Government been seen.

However, a dozen independentistas did want to surround the Junts leader with shouts of “Laura, our president”, “it is not justice, it is revenge” and slogans in favor of independence. Among those who have attended, the Secretary General, Jordi Turullthe leader of the parliamentary group, Albert Batet, and a large part of the party’s deputies in Parliament. Also a delegation from the ANC and representatives of Òmnium individually with a Junts card, such as the ‘ex-minister’ Quim Forn.

Borràs is accused of prevarication and documentary falsification and faces six years in prison, 21 of disqualification and a fine of 144,000 euros. She is accused of breaking up contracts to hand-pick them to an acquaintance when she ran the Institution of Catalan Letters (ILC). The Junts leader defends that it is a case of “political persecution” and ‘lawfare’, a story that the rest of the pro-independence parties do not buy, who ask not to mix it with the pro-independence movement.

Who was Borràs’ collaborator, Isaiah Herrero, has made a pact with the prosecution and is willing to indict her in exchange for the reduction of the penalty request. This confession would be a setback for politics and would bring her closer to a conviction. During the trial, the suspended Parliament speaker has announced that she is leaving her political activity −including her networks− hers to focus on her defense.

“You will not have a fair trial”

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In statements to journalists, Turull has said that he will always support the presumption of innocence and that he is convinced that Borràs “will not have a fair trial” due to the “ostentation” of the president of the court, Jesus Maria Barrientos, “against independence.” Regarding the absence of ERC and CUP, he has asserted that it tastes bad and that each one will know what he does “with his conscience and convictions”, although he has slipped that Junts “has always been in political persecution trials”.

The vice president of the ANC, for his part, Jordi Pesarrodona, has continued in the same line and has blurted out that there is no guarantee that he will have a fair and non-politicized trial because “disproportionate sentences are requested against very worthy people.” “Spanish justice is not impartial, it is part,” she has riveted. Statements also in line with those of Carme Garcia, representative of the Council for the Republicwho has affirmed that between Borràs who affirms that he is “innocent” and the accusation of the Spanish prosecutor’s office, they have “very clear who to be next to”.

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