The Supreme Court, dismayed by the "barbarity" of the future amnesty: "It means ending Justice"

MADRID, 13 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

In the Supreme Court (TS) they are dismayed by the proposed amnesty law that the PSOE has registered this Monday in the Congress of Deputies, considering that it is an "atrocity" that "means putting an end to Justice" due to the that this judicial headquarters has been working for the last six years.

The sources of the high court consulted by Europa Press emphasize that, with current legislation, the job of judges and magistrates was to prosecute crimes committed within the framework of the 'procés', a task that began after the illegal referendum of October 1 of 2017 and that this amnesty law means "throwing it in the trash."

It is worth remembering that the Supreme Court tried and convicted 12 pro-independence leaders in 2019 for 1-O, among them the former Catalan vice president Oriol Junqueras, and that in that same court there are still open cases against the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and his escaped former councilors.

The aforementioned sources also denounce that, contrary to what the text itself defends, it is "a tailored suit" for the leaders of the 'procés' and their collaborators.

The bill to amnesty the Catalan independence movement presented late this Monday alone by the PSOE covers more than a decade of the 'procés': from January 1, 2012 - through the consultation of November 9, 2014, the illegal referendum of October 1, 2017 and the riots after the 'procés' ruling in 2019-- until this Monday, November 13.

The text - which consists of 16 articles, divided into three titles, two additional provisions and a final provision - proposes amnesty of "criminal, administrative or accounting liability" for acts carried out within the framework of the consultations held in Catalonia.

The socialists propose exonerating "acts committed with the intention of vindicating, promoting or seeking the secession or independence of Catalonia, as well as those that would have contributed to the achievement of such purposes." To this end, it includes crimes such as usurpation of public functions, embezzlement, prevarication, disobedience and public disorder.

As detailed in the proposal, the amnesty covers not only the organization and celebration of the consultation and the referendum, but also other "possible crimes that have a deep connection with them", in reference to the preparatory acts, the different protest actions to allow its celebration or show opposition to the prosecution or conviction of those responsible.

The text also includes "acts of disobedience, whatever their nature, public disorder, attacks against the authority, its agents and public officials or resistance that had been carried out with the purpose of allowing the holding of popular consultations." or with the purpose of showing support for the objectives and purposes of the 'procés'. And, likewise, it proposes amnesty "actions carried out in the course of police actions aimed at hindering or preventing the carrying out" of said consultations.