Thursday, February 14, 2019

The 20 sentences of the public prosecutors that have knocked down the 'political trial' of the defenses

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Public prosecutors Javier Zaragoza and Fidel Cadena have exposed for 100 minutes in the Plenary Hall of the Supreme Court the reasons why there is a trial in which political ideas are not judged, only those leaders who tried to subvert the constitutional order with the unilateral declaration of independence of Catalonia by way of the so-called ‘procés’.

Below are some of the solemn statements made by representatives of the Public Ministry.

1. "The right to decide belongs to all the Spanish people".

2. "A few cannot decide about what belongs to all of us".

3. "There is no democratic legality outside the constitutional legality".

4. "There is no Catalan sovereignty, there is a sovereignty of the Spanish people. The right to decide belongs to all the Spanish people".

5. "This trial is in defense of a democratic political system".

6. "The sovereignty of the Spanish people cannot be substituted by the sovereignty of any of the peoples that integrate it".

7. The political activity "is not a carte blanche that justifies the commission of criminal actions. The object of this trial is not independence".

8. "The exercise of political action is not a cause of exemption from criminal responsibility".

9. "This trial is not about leaders who claimed freedoms but about leaders who wanted to snatch them".

10. The independence leaders "devised a criminal plan" of great "complexity and scope".

11. "What is being prosecuted is a concerted, thorough plan with many sides converging to carry out" a violent and public uprising to challenge the constitutional order.

12. "This is the trial of the triumph of democracy".

13 "Several writings are more accusatory libels than allegations of defense".

14 "Nobody is persecuted for their ideas; but only for their actions".

15 "[They wanted] to get rid of the Constitution and the Statute by means of a parallel legality".

16 "Connecting the proportionate use of the police force with torture is a legal absurdity of important dimensions".

17 "The dialogue from any kind of imposition is unacceptable in a democratic state".

18. "Any person is free to disagree with the law but cannot disobey it".

19 "The risk of escape is obvious. You just have to see that six people are not available to this court because they are outside the outreach of Justice”.

20. "The Mossos d'Esquadra are totally on the side of rebellion".

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