The president of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court, Manuel Marchena, has lamented "at heart" that three days before the 'procés' sentence was notified, the most relevant data of the historic ruling on the conviction of the independence leaders was leaked.

The magistrate has differentiated between the "forecasts" that were previously made by various media about the possible final outcome of said criminal proceedings and "more correct and accurate information" on the content of that ruling. Last Saturday THE WORLD revealed what were the crimes that were going to be attributed to those accused of the independence challenge, the extension of the sentence, the rejection of the Chamber to the application of the so-called "security period" to the prisoners as well as the distribution of functions among the magistrates of the Second Chamber for the drafting of the same.

The president of the court has stressed that his "only consolation" is that no journalist handled the text of the sentence before it was notified to the promoters of the process. Marchena, visibly upset with the leak, has been tried to attribute to "third parties" outside his Chamber and has advanced that he will try to do everything possible because this "does not happen again." "The only consolation is that the sentence has not left here," he added.

Also, the magistrate has indicated that it was a "is a very special sentence, for its content, length, the problems we have had to address is of great complexity and has demanded from the whole room, all its members, a very deliberate deliberative effort that I want to highlight. "

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