The National Court plans to notify this Wednesday the acquittal of the mayor of the Mossos d'Esquadra Josep Lluís Trapero of his participation in it.

According to court sources, the division in which the Chamber that tried him had been installed for months has ended up opting for an acquittal that will be supported by two magistrates and the opposite vote of the president of the Criminal Chamber.

At the end of the trial, the Prosecutor's Office of the National High Court replaced its initial accusation of rebellion with that of sedition, in order to comply with the judgment of the Supreme Court on the

process

.

But it also added a subsidiary proposal in case the court did not consider the sedition proven.

In that case, he proposed a conviction for disobedience, punishable only by disqualification (one year and eight months was requested) and a fine (60,000 euros) but which would have entailed the expulsion of Trapero from the Mossos de Esquadra.

Finally, the magistrates

Ramón Sáez

(rapporteur of the sentence) and the former president of the Supreme Court of Madrid

Francisco José Vieira

have concluded that the trial did not show sufficient evidence for either of the two crimes.

According to sources from the Hearing, during the deliberations the option of converging in a conviction for disobedience was raised, but the speaker rejected any conviction.

Faced with the impossibility of a unanimous sentence, Vieira leaned towards acquittal and the president,

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, by a long and harsh private vote that advocated a prison sentence.

The acquittal extends to the other three defendants: the former director of the Mossos Pere Soler, the former secretary general of the Ministry of the Interior of the Generalitat César Puig and the mayor of the Mossos Teresa Laplana.

The sentence will not be final.

The Prosecutor's Office - there were no popular accusations in this trial - can appeal to the Court of Appeals of the Court and, subsequently, to the Supreme Court.

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