The board of criminal prosecutors of the Supreme Court votes on Tuesday on terrorism and Puigdemont, by Ernesto Ekaizer

The State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, has left in the hands of the board of the first Criminal section of the Supreme Court the decision to inform the Admission Chamber of said court about the request of Judge Manuel García-Castellón (exhibition reasoned) to charge MEP Carles Puigdemont with an alleged crime of terrorism in the Tsunami Democràtic case. As EL PERIÓDICO has learned, the meeting of prosecutors who make up the first criminal section will deliberate on Tuesday, February 6, starting at 10:00 a.m. on Fortuny Street, 4, Madrid, on the basis of a presentation commissioned from prosecutor Álvaro Redondo and will vote on the report.

Therefore, it will not be the four exclusive prosecutors – or any of them – who brought the accusation in the ‘procés’ trial, nor the lieutenant prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Ángeles Sánchez, who will report. But three of them – Fidel Cadena, Consuelo Madrigal and Javier Zaragoza – make up the first section, which has 13 prosecutors. It is chaired by Cadena and the court prosecutor Javier Sánchez-Covisa.

Since last week, the prosecutors have, as confirmed by this newspaper, the two basic pieces of the deliberation and voting: Judge García-Castellón’s 101-page presentation submitted to the Supreme Court on November 21, 2023 and an extensive draft of Prosecutor Redondo’s presentation.

Por tanto, los informes de la Fiscalía de la Audiencia Nacional contrarios a la calificación de la causa del Tsunami Democràtic -manifestaciones y corte de carreteras en 2019 en protesta contra la sentencia del ‘procés’- como delito de terrorismo y a la participación de Puigdemont en el liderazgo de dicho movimiento no formarán, en principio, parte del debate.

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