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Hundreds of people showed up Tuesday before the High Court of Catalonia (TSJC) to incriminate himself of involvement in a symbolic vote on the independendencia and thus protest the investigation Catalan president, found a photographer from AFP.
The protest, organized by the Catalan National Congress (ANC), in favor of self-determination has one day after the opening of an instruction on the consultation of November 9, following several complaints, mainly of the prosecution.
This is directed against the nationalist president Artur Mas, as the main organizer , Joana Ortega Vice President for Education and Irene Rigau, for disobeying a Constitutional Court decision suspending this symbolic vote.
Finally some 2.3 million people participated in the consultation and about 1, 9000000 is the person who signs considered “illegitimate” in favor of independence.
Catalonia has 7.5 million inhabitants.
According to the text, the Spanish government had asked that suspension. “Restricts my fundamental rights to freedom of opinion and expression rights,” he says.
The signatories say and warn the justice of their participation in the vote “just might be considered a criminal offense”.
“It is an act of denunciation to the fact that the Spanish judicial institutions have chosen this process of criminalization of politics,” he told AFP Andreu Porta, unemployed teacher of 24 years and one of the promoters of the initiative .
According to organizers, nearly 600 people responded to the call of ANC appearing before the TSJC in Barcelona to incriminate himself. Others might do in other courts.
could not be reached in the immediate with the court.
“These things happen when you want to bring politics to justice,” said Ricard Gené , a lawyer of 53 years of ANC that autodenunció Tuesday.
“If anyone thinks that through criminal complaints Catalan process will stop, because they are really very wrong,” launched by its part of the Catalan regional government spokesman, Francesc Homs.
“There is no precedent in a democratic country that people are submitted claims for putting polls,” he lamented.
The head of the Catalan Socialist Party, Miquel Iceta, considered on the other hand that the court decision is “bad news”. “We hope that does not lead to any criminal penalty,” said
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