Cristina Rubio Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Thursday, March 28, 2024-11:35
The last major pending trial has been postponed until the date of the
process.
The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has decided to delay the trial of the Minister of Culture, Natàlia Garriga; the leader of ERC in the Parliament and former secretary general of the Vice-Presidency of the Generalitat, Josep Maria Jové, and the former secretary of the Treasury, Lluís Salvadó -both known as the "brains" of 1-O- to avoid it coinciding with the campaign Catalan electoral of 12-M.
The trial was scheduled between April 10 and May 29, so it would have overlapped with the electoral campaign and the Parliamentary elections. In this sense, the court sees it necessary to "avoid reciprocal interference between the democratic electoral process and the necessary calm that must preside over the holding of the oral trial", as shared by all the parties involved.
On the other hand, the TSJC rejects its suspension by the Amnesty Law, as required by ERC: "It cannot be taken, today, as a certain fact with the capacity to interfere or alter the course of the oral trial already convened."
The Prosecutor's Office requests seven years in prison for the Esquerra deputy Josep Maria Jové and six years and three months for Lluís Salvadó, current president of the Port of Barcelona, by applying the aggravated modality of embezzlement, in addition to prevarication and disobedience for the organization of the referendum. illegal from October 1, 2017.
The Public Ministry also requests a year of disqualification for the current Minister of Culture, Natàlia Garriga for a crime of serious disobedience due to her role in the preparations for 1-O from the position she held in the Vice-Presidency Department directed by Oriol Junqueras.
The three were part of the hard core of the president of ERC in the Generalitat in 2017, during the run-up to 1-O and the so-called disconnection laws approved in the Parliament.