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The Supreme Court plans to make public between Monday and tomorrow, Tuesday, the sentence in which it condemns for a crime of sedition to nine of the 12 independent leaders judged by the 'procés', in competition with another of embezzlement in the case of the ex-prisoner prisoners, just as THE WORLD advanced this weekend.

The expectation before this failure of the highest Spanish judicial instance has been increasing, amid calls from independence to respond with civil disobedience and mass demonstrations in Catalonia .

THE WORLD advanced this weekend that the seven judges of the Supreme already unanimously agreed to condemn nine of the 12 defendants for sedition and not for rebellion , a crime against the Constitution subject to more severe penalties.

If it is confirmed that the sentences are for sedition and not for rebellion, the independentistas, nine of them in provisional prison in some cases for almost two years, still risk long prison sentences for their involvement in one of the worst crisis of the country since the end of the dictatorship, in 1975.

Signature and notification of the sentence of the process

The trial was seen for sentencing last June, four months and 52 sessions after its start on February 12 of this year. Since then the court has been deliberating for legal blocks and this last weekend the magistrates have made a final reading of the text.

However, until the time of signing any of the magistrates can make contributions announcing the presentation of a particular vote. The sedition is regulated in article 544 of the Criminal Code and applies to those who rise "publicly and tumultuarially" to prevent "by force or out of legal means" compliance with the laws or the exercise of functions to any authority , official corporation or public official.

When opting for this crime, whose application is the one that would have finally achieved the unanimity of the seven magistrates that make up the court, from the State Legal Services claimed penalties reduced by almost half with respect to those urged by the Public Ministry, which They reached 25 years in jail in the case of former Vice President of the Generalitat Oriol Junqueras .

"Spain is a consolidated democracy"

A few hours after the Supreme Court signs and notifies the sentence, the Government of Pedro Sánchez has launched a campaign through social networks to show the strength of Spanish democracy, ## EverybodysLand -La casa de todos-. "Spain is a consolidated democracy. A State of Law of the most advanced in the world and one of the freest and safest countries. This is the real Spain. And we have done it together, citizenship and institutions. Since coexistence, respect and the law, "is the message that accompanies several videos in which acting ministers praise democracy.

This is a comment prior to knowing the ruling of the Supreme Court that joins the international offensive of the Executive ensuring that "Spain is a consolidated democracy."

In the video, which lasts eight minutes, the vice president, Carmen Calvo , along with the ministers Josep Borrell , Fernando Grande Marlaska , Isabel Celaá , Nadia Calviño , Luis Planas , Teresa Ribera , José Guirao and Pedro Duque participate .

Appearances of Sánchez and Torra

As soon as the sentence is made public, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez , and the President of the Generalitat, Quim Torra will appear to make a first assessment of the judicial decision. In addition, the Catalan Parliament will hold a specific plenary in response to the ruling.

Sants and Girona stations

The Mossos d'Esquadra and the National Police have deployed a device at the Sants and Girona stations on Monday, just hours before the sentence is expected. In the Sants Station, specific accesses have been closed , but the infrastructure can be accessed by others and the circulation is free.

In addition, the Mossos have asked Metropolitan Transport of Barcelona (TMB) to close the access of the L5 of the Sants Metro Station, so that an alternative link has been enabled by the L3 and abroad, while in the city of Girona the inputs and outputs of the AVE station are also regulated

Civil disobedience and surprise actions

The Catalan separatists, who maintain control of the Generalitat, repudiated the "leaks festival" of the sentence, as Carles Puigdemont said on Twitter. For his part, the Catalan president, Quim Torra , defender of "civil disobedience," called on Saturday "mass, peaceful participation, in all the concentrations of rejection and demonstrations that will be made in these coming weeks if the sentence is not absolutory. "

For his part, the president of ERC, Oriol Junqueras , asked on Sunday the independence "courage, perseverance and dignity" and cedicated the PSOE and the PSC because "applaud" a sentence "because they think that protects their interests."

Junqueras sent an article to ElNacional , in which he says that "from the cell of Lledoners (the prison in which he awaits the sentence), with his soul full of pride on the road traveled and hope for what we will walk, I ask for courage , perseverance and dignity. "

For the same night of the ruling they have called protests from the Catalan National Assembly and Òmnium Cultural . Afterwards, several marches will leave five cities in Catalonia to join Barcelona on Friday, during a day of general strike. More uncertainty is generated by the announced "surprise actions" of the so-called Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR)

Important disqualification penalties

The State Advocacy requested 12 years in jail for former Vice President Junqueras; 11 for the rest of former counselors in prison, -Joaquim Forn, Jordi Turull, Josep Rull, Raül Romeva and Dolors Bassa-; 10 for the former president of the Parliament Carme Forcadell, and 8 for leaders of the ANC and Òmnium Jordi Sánchez (ANC) and Jordi Cuixart (Cultural Omnium), to which she added a request for penalties of absolute disqualification for the same time in each of the cases.

For the three former free counselors Meritxell Borrás, Carles Mundó and Santiago Vila, 7-year jail sentences were requested for embezzlement and disobedience, a criminal type that only entails disqualification and fine.

The sedition, included in the chapter on crimes against public order, is punishable by imprisonment of 8 to 10 years who have "induced, sustained or directed" the sedition and with 10 to 15 years imprisonment of persons "constituted in authority" .

And the penalties?

If this sedition is applied as it has transpired in a medial contest with that of embezzlement - as requested by the State Advocacy - the penalties to be imposed may exceed what is requested by this party for each of the defendants.

The facts that have been analyzed in detail to reach a decision in this regard have been the concentrations at the gates of several offices of the Generalitat of Catalonia that occurred on September 20, 2017 after the arrest of several Catalan leaders accused of organizing the 1-O, especially about 40,000 people in front of the Ministry of Economy that prevented the departure of the judicial delegation that registered the building until the wee hours of the morning. In these events, according to the accusations, the leaders of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) and Cultural Omnium, Jordi Sánchez and Jordi Cuixart had special implication.

As a second block of fundamental facts, the riots lived on October 1 when hundreds of citizens prevented the security forces from acting to prevent the illegal referendum; To which will be added an in-depth legal analysis of the previous action of the Parliament in terms of the approval of the laws called 'disconnection' with Spain, both that of the Referendum and that of Transition and Foundational of the Catalan Republic . This last block will directly affect Carme Forcadell.

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