At the end of his column yesterday, the journalist Sergi Sol concludes with a direct threat from the world of ERC: If (Jové and Salvadó) go to jail, we will go back to our old ways. Sol maintains that with the failure of the embezzlement reform trust has been cracked between both sides of the table of dialogue. He not only criticizes the interpretation that the Supreme Court has made, but, above all, the subsequent statements of the Government, denying that his wish was for the defendants to get off scot-free, thus distancing himself from the harsh criticism that the PP had done to him. Well, it is important to underline several things. First, the Second Criminal Chamber, presided over by Manuel Marchena, has not invented anything, since there is very consolidated jurisprudence on the term profit. That there is no own enrichment does not mean absence of profit. For a reform to incorporate that fact as extenuating embezzlement, It should have been drafted, if anything, in another way, instead of adding a simple non-profit in the new article 433.
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