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Amnesty Law: Repercussions and instructions for the Mossos d’Esquadra

by PREMIUM.CAT
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Repercussions of the Amnesty Law

After the publication in the Official Gazette of the State (BOE) of the Amnesty law that the Spanish government has agreed with Junts and Esquerra to guarantee the stability of Pedro Sánchez and that serves to close and reconcile the alleged crimes committed during the most intense years of Catalonia’s independence process, which ended with the failed declaration of 2017 and the revolt in the street in 2019 with serious incidents of public order, everyone has moved. The representatives of the politicians and activists convicted or awaiting trial have already requested that in application of this law, which yesterday was sanctioned by the Head of State, King Felipe de Bourbon, and entered into force, be applied to them and the cases are filed or the causes are removed. But the judges have also moved and, most of them, have already shown their teeth and no one rules out a blow to avoid applying, at least with the speed required by law, the Amnesty for Catalan politicians.

Instructions for the Mossos d’Esquadra

Be that as it may, the application of this law has also moved the Mossos d’Esquadra and it was the chief commissioner, Eduard Sallent, who took the lead and published it on the internal network of the Catalan police a message addressed to all commands and agents of the corps with precise instructions on how to act in the face of the recently approved Amnesty Law. Considering that right now even the judges do not know how this new law will be applied, the chief commissioner asks the officers that if they think they have to take any action that could be framed under the approved law, to immediately inform the the Prefecture so that it is the police department that considers it, asks the judges about it and, as a last resort, orders what must be done. In this way, the order, which will be signed by the Prefecture and the chief commissioner, will release the agents from any responsibility, judicial or political.

Doubts and concerns

The chief commissioner does not hide that the application of this law “may generate doubts during the daily operational activity” including situations in which it is necessary to comply with certain administrative or judicial orders. The Prefecture of Sallent, with commissioners Rosa Bosch and Ferran López, will be in charge of validating these actions with the competent administrative, judicial or accounting bodies and, subsequently, will issue the necessary instructions to the corresponding police units. Sallent’s order points out that the Amnesty Law implies “the end of the convictions and judicial proceedings related to the people who participated in the pro-independence process, extinguishing their criminal, administrative or accounting responsibility”.

Union reactions

For its part, one of the majority unions of the Mossos d’Esquadra, USPAC, has charged against the Minister of the Interior of the Generalitat, Joan Ignasi Elena, accusing him of “taking the side of the violent” because of the application that his department has prepared for the Amnesty Law. This application focuses, according to the union, on pardoning all pro-independence demonstrators who, in recent years, have committed crimes of disorder, assault against authority, aggression or unauthorized demonstration and have been sanctioned by the Catalan police. The department has announced that it will open a form on the department’s website to be able to claim this amnesty.

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