The Supreme Prosecutor opposes investigating Puigdemont for terrorism in 'Democratic Tsunami'

It defends the same thesis as the Prosecutor's Office of the National Court and points to serious public disorders

The prosecutor of the Supreme Court (TS) Álvaro Redondo has issued a report opposing the high court investigating Carles Puigdemont for terrorism, thus responding to the reasoned statement sent to the TS by the judge of the National Court (AN) that instructs 'Tsunami Democràtic', Manuel García Castellón, to accuse the former Catalan president of these crimes.

According to what 'El Confidencial' has reported and tax sources have confirmed to Europa Press, Redondo follows the thesis of the National Court prosecutor Miguel Ángel Carballo, who appealed the step taken by the investigating judge when he considered that there was not enough evidence to proceed against Puigdemont. and that the events did not constitute terrorism, but serious public disorder.

However, the same sources explain that the report is not yet final because it must be submitted to the examination of the board of criminal prosecutors of the TS, something that is scheduled for next Tuesday. In the event that there are opposing criteria, that of the majority will prevail, they point out.

Once the final report of the Supreme Court Prosecutor's Office has been issued, Judge Juan Ramón Berdugo - as rapporteur on the matter - will be in charge of proposing to the Criminal Chamber of the high court whether its admission is appropriate or not.

It was last November when the head of the Central Court of Instruction Number 6 led the case against Puigdemont and, shortly after, submitted a reasoned statement to the Supreme Court asking that he be charged with terrorism, given that the independence leader is registered before this court.

In a writing of more than 100 pages, García Castellón argued that there are "indications" of the participation of Puigdemont, the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, and ten other people in the commission of acts "susceptible to integrating a crime of terrorism." .

The magistrate placed Puigdemont at the "highest vertex of the organization" of Tsunami Democràtic, indicating that his position as former president and "leader of the independence movement from Brussels attributes to him a position of unquestionable authority."

Then, it was based on the messages via mobile phone between his chief of staff, Josep Lluís Alay, and the businessman Jesús Rodríguez, the notes from the former's agenda or Puigdemont's push through Twitter for the launch of the Tsunami platform. Democratic.

García Castellón explained that in order to "clarify the facts" it was necessary to carry out investigative procedures that he could not carry out given the status of both Puigdemont and the deputy of the Parliament of Catalonia Rubén Wagensberg, against whom he also directed the investigation. cause.

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The Prosecutor's Office of the National Court appealed that first decision to direct the investigations against Puigdemont, understanding, on the one hand, that there is no "sufficient" evidence against him and, on the other, that the AN "is not competent" to investigate the case because The events would not be terrorism but rather aggravated public disorder.

This January, the instructor rejected the appeal for reform presented by the Prosecutor's Office against the request to the TS, alleging that the latest procedures carried out to date have allowed "to consolidate the initial hypothesis."

It should be remembered that in this case the National Court is investigating whether Democratic Tsunami orchestrated the riots that broke out in the fall of 2019 as a reaction to the sentence handed down by the Supreme Court against the former Catalan vice-president Oriol Junqueras and other leaders of the 'process'.