The Amnesty Law It is still in the processing phase and already has its first beneficiaries. A court in Gerona agreed yesterday to postpone for one year the trial in which up to four years in prison and heavy compensation were requested from four accused of public disorder for interrupting railway traffic on the first anniversary of the 1-O.
The request for suspension of the trial due to the probable approval of a law that led to the case being archived was presented by the lawyer Benedict Salellasalso a lawyer in relevant cases of the process like the Democratic Tsunami.
The position of the parties regarding the request has revealed a first clash between the State Attorney -the legal arm of the Government- and the Prosecutor’s Office. While the Legal Profession supported the position of the accused, the Public Ministry opposed it. The decision of the lawyer from the Administration of Justice of Criminal Court number 2 was to postpone the oral hearing until November 2024.
In its writing, the State Attorney’s Office – which acts for damages and losses to Renfe y Adif– supports the suspension “taking into account the parliamentary processing of the aforementioned organic law, which if approved would imply the extinction of the criminal responsibility of the four accused and the termination of that one.” It also assesses the personal and material cost that the two days of trial would have.
On the other hand, the Prosecutor’s Office maintained that what is being processed in Congress “is not a law that is in force and applicable as of today, since it has not yet been approved or sanctioned. Only one bill has entered Congress. […] “so there remains a long way to go before its effective entry into force.”