The Supreme Court sends the case of Anna Gabriel to the Barcelona Court

The Prosecutor's Office and Gabriel herself urged the court to refer the case to Catalonia

The Supreme Court (TS) has sent the case of the former deputy of the CUP in Parliament Anna Gabriel, prosecuted for an alleged crime of disobedience for her alleged participation in the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (DUI) of Catalonia, to the Provincial Court of Barcelona considering that it is the competent body given that the leader no longer enjoys the status of registered.

"Given that the defendant does not have any appraisal and that, therefore, this Chamber has lost its jurisdiction, it proceeds without further formality (...) to decline jurisdiction in favor of the Provincial Court of Barcelona," the court stated in a car that Europa Press has had.

The magistrates of the Criminal Chamber have confirmed the summary order issued by the investigating magistrate of the 'procés' Pablo Llarena last September after taking a statement from Gabriel, since the procedure was reactivated in July, when the leader appeared voluntarily before the Supreme Court after returning from Switzerland, where she was on the run after being processed in 2018.

As stated in the resolution, the Prosecutor's Office advocated opening an oral trial against Gabriel for the crime of disobedience for which she was prosecuted and asked the Supreme Court to refer the case to Catalonia. The CUP leader also urged the court to refer the procedure to Barcelona, ​​considering that it was not competent to rule on whether it was appropriate to send it to trial or archive the case.

The State Attorney, for its part, did not interest the opening of the oral trial against Gabriel considering that substantially the same facts had been prosecuted before the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, where an acquittal was handed down that has not been appealed by the accusations.

Gabriel's criminal horizon is now in the hands of the Barcelona Court, which must decide whether to send her to trial or file the proceedings against her.

In his statement before the Supreme Court, Gabriel denied having committed an alleged crime of disobedience for his alleged involvement in the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (DUI) of Catalonia. When he left, he told the media that he expected the case to be filed or sent to a court in Barcelona, ​​as has finally happened.

According to legal sources present at the interrogation consulted by Europa Press, Gabriel testified for just under half an hour before Judge Llarena, the Prosecutor's Office, the State Attorney's Office and the popular prosecution exercised by Vox. The leader refused to answer questions from the State legal services and those from the group led by Santiago Abascal.

The same sources specified that the Public Ministry asked the former deputy if in 2017 she received any requirement from the Constitutional Court warning her that she could not promote a parliamentary initiative that would lead to the independence of Catalonia. Gabriel said that she did not, that she did not receive any notification and that, therefore, she would not have committed the crime of disobedience attributed to her.