• Trial 1-O. The Generalitat grants the third degree to independence prisoners 9 months after being sentenced to terms of up to 13 years

ERC leader Oriol Junqueras, Òmnium Cultural leader Jordi Cuixart, and former councilors Raül Romeva and Jordi Turull are enjoying their first weekend in the third degree in prison today. They have left the Lledoners prison , in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada ( Barcelona ), at 6.55 am and will not have to return to prison until Monday, reports Europa Press.

Upon leaving prison, Cuixart has declared to journalists that the third degree does not mean anything concrete to him because what they want is "to get out of the repression once and for all." Asked about what third grade means to him, Junqueras has said that he is happy to be able to see the people of his town: "You can imagine it now, surely it does not take many details."

Turull said that despite not being complete freedom, they had been waiting for this weekend for a long time, and asked why he will do the weekend, he said: "I want to thank everyone, so much people like me can find me because they have given us so much strength, so much courage and so much hope ".

Likewise, the former president of the Parlament Carme Forcadell has left the Wad-Ras (Barcelñona) prison at 6.40 in the morning alone and in her own vehicle, reports Elnacional.

A third degree "undercover" appealed by the Prosecutor's Office

Nine months after knowing the sentences of up to 13 years in prison, all the convicts of the procés have obtained the third degree. This was communicated this Tuesday by the Ministry of Justice of the Generalitat , which explained that the proposal of the treatment boards of prisons in which the nine prisoners serve sentences so that all of them go to semi-freedom regime has been accepted.

The decision adopted by the Classification Service of the Secretariat for Criminal Measures has taken into account various elements to endorse the third degree, explained the Generalitat. Among them, which considers that there is "a low risk of recidivism" in those convicted of sedition. It also highlights that they have participated in "activities of reasoning, critical judgment and conflict resolution".

For all these reasons, he said after highlighting their collaboration in prison and the absence of sanctions, "and with the aim of promoting and consolidating the itinerary of social and labor reintegration in the private sphere, the Classification Service agrees to continue its treatment programs with a regime of greater autonomy ".

Until now, prisoners already enjoyed a similar regime to the third degree. So similar that it had been appealed by the Prosecutor's Office alleging that it was actually a third degree undercover. The inmates began to enjoy exit permits when it was legally possible, once a quarter of the sentence had been served. Although the sentence was handed down in October, the nine had been in prison for almost two years. They were also quickly granted the flexible regime of 100.2 -so known by the article of the prison regulations that regulate it-, which allowed them to get out of prison every day for a varied list of reasons, from working to caring for a relative.

The formal concession of the third degree means that the Supreme magistrates who issued the sentence will revise the situation of the nine convicts. In its day, the court refused to block the third degree until they served half the sentence, as requested by the Public Ministry. But that does not mean that you should accept what the Generalitat has agreed. The magistrates could revoke the third degree, which would return the prisoners to the intermediate regime in which they were.

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