Dressed in togas, satanic horns, and located in the depths of the underworld. In this way, as judges of the Supreme Court, it is how the four figures representing the role of the devils are represented in the scene of hell of the 21st edition of the Living Nativity scene of Linyola (Lleida) .

"Until now the boilers of Pere Botero - a Catalan legend - was a scene where we burned a popular vote to a character or institution. This year is the other way around, we have done what we call the 'Hell of the process on Earth' and the role the Supreme Judges assume the devil, "says the mayor and also a member of the Associació del Pessebre Vivent de Linyola, Àlex Mases (ERC).

That is why, continues the Republican mayor, "that in the pot burn the protagonists of the sovereign process of Catalonia and also all those people unjustly persecuted for expressing their opinions or for being dissidents with the system."

A "vindictive" and "transgressive" action accompanied by another scene in which you can see images of politicians imprisoned inside a prison under a poster calling for their release, with which the organization seeks to criticize the judgment of the trial of 1 -O, and that in his first pass on Thursday has already attracted the attention of more than 800 people , who were sentenced to burn in hell after being sentenced by Lucifer himself.

"I don't think we offend anyone. We have tried to put the judges as demons because we really think they have behaved very badly. It is simply a vindictive image protesting the politicians who are in prison unjustly locked," explains one of the organizers of the manger, Susi Caba.

The action, however, is not the first time it has been carried out in the municipality of Lleida during the Christmas holidays. Already in 2017 the manger association suspended the theatrical representation of the Nativity in protest over the imprisonment of Catalan politicians.

"The municipality of Linyola wants to show its strong rejection of the repression that the Spanish Government and institutions are carrying out in Catalonia, especially in the detention and imprisonment of our government, which we still consider legitimate because it was democratically elected by the people of Catalonia ", said then Mases, who from the Consistory joined the measure taken by the mangers after deciding not to turn on the Christmas lights, suspend part of the acts, and install a Christmas tree of a claiming nature" to denounce the existence of prisoners politicians in Spain in the 21st century and the authoritarian repression of Spain towards Catalonia. "

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