Jul 2024 – Page 2

Fury in Catalonia Over Abuse of Amnesty Law by Corrupt Spanish Judges

from thefreeonline by Jordi Oriola Folch by Bella Caledonia photos added — – ( on Telegram t.me/thefreeonline)

2017.. Imported Police failed to block the popular Independence Referendum due to the massive turnout.

In order to form a government of PSOE and Sumar (centre and left) and avoid one of PP and VOX (right and extreme right), they made a pact with eight parties, with 179 seats, representing 12.3 million citizens.

Sept 2o17.. A van of the occupying paramilitary police , ‘peacefully’ swamped by the multitude and trapped for half a day.

The Catalan pro-independence supporters, essential to achieve the pact, demanded, as an initial condition, the approval of an amnesty law that would deactivate the judicial repression with which the high judiciary, motivated by its exacerbated Spanish nationalism, has persecuted Catalan nationalists (500 people have convictions or pending trials).

The PSOE, which is also very nationalist and which rejected the amnesty, did a U-turn after the elections and accepted the amnesty in order not to lose the government.

The amnesty law is not being accepted by Spanish nationalism, so we will see how it will be applied, but in reality what would have been fair would have been a process of nullification of the cases, admitting that the Catalan independence supporters had not committed any crime in organising a referendum on self-determination and that the accusations against them were part of the “lawfare” (instrumentalising justice for political ends) used by the state against them.

Then the police officers who improperly attacked the referendum voters could have been tried.

The amnesty, on the other hand, annuls the crimes that are understood to have been committed by both sides, but the fact is that the pro-independence side acted democratically and committed no crime, while the state acted outside the law.

Although the amnesty is unfair to the pro-independence supporters because it attributes crimes to them, what makes Spanish nationalism mad is that, being the strong side, they cannot win and humiliate the weak, as they have always done.

Sept 2017.. 80 vanloads of Franco’s paramilitary Guardia Civil emerged from their HQ in the docks and charged against a total of 93 polling stations… see also Catalan Referendum Wins. 90% YES despite Spanish Police attacks. 844 injured by 8pm

As the state is the strong party, its approval of the amnesty implies that it implicitly accepts that it played dirty with the illegitimate aim of trying to destroy a perfectly legitimate political movement.

The Spanish Congress ensured that the law was unambiguous because it was certain that the judges would try to interpret it in a distorted way against the Catalan pro-independence supporters.