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Junqueras asks the Supreme Court for acquittal after the penal reform that repealed sedition and modified embezzlement

Romeva and Forcadell also ask the court of the 'process' to acquit them.

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Junqueras asks the Supreme Court for acquittal after the penal reform that repealed sedition and modified embezzlement

Romeva and Forcadell also ask the court of the 'process' to acquit them

MADRID, 24 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The former Catalan vice president and ERC leader, Oriol Junqueras, as well as the former councilor Raul Romeva and the former president of Parliament Carme Forcadell, has requested this Tuesday that the court sentence him to 13 years in prison and disqualification for the 'procés' that acquit him as a result of the sentence review that the Supreme Court (TS) must carry out because of the penal reform that repealed sedition and modified embezzlement.

"The text of the current Penal Code is more favourable, as it does not provide for criminal liability for any of the conducts for which a sentence was handed down in its day," says Junqueras in his statement of allegations, to which Europa Press has had access.

Consequently, his defense asks the court of the 'procés' "to review the sentence imposed on my client and to issue a resolution declaring the non-existence of criminal responsibility for the proven facts described in the judgment of October 14, 2019".

The former vice president once again denounces "an unpredictable and disproportionate application of the criminal reaction to events that occur in the exercise of fundamental rights, rights that have been violated or unduly limited for the achievement of purposes other than those that would enable such limitations."

The allegations of these three convicts are added to those formulated this Tuesday by the defense of the former president of Òmnium Cultural Jordi Cuixart, who has assured in his letter that the review of his sentence for the reform of the Penal Code that repeals sedition does not "repair "what he considers to have been the violation of a series of fundamental rights and insists that he will continue with his lawsuit against Spain before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

The court of the 'procés' must review the sentences imposed in 2019 to apply the most favorable Penal Code to the convicted, as established by the norm itself in its article 2. Although the Supreme Court has summoned the parties to rule, it will be the court -- presided over by magistrate Manuel Marchena -- who finally decides how the sentence remains.