The TSJC removes its president from the trial of Roger Torrent due to questions of impartiality

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has removed its president, Jesús María Barrientos, from the trial of former Parliament president Roger Torrent, seeing his "appearance of impartiality" compromised for abandoning in 2018 an act in which the ERC leader He spoke of “political prisoners”.

This has been agreed by the court of recusals of the TSJC in an order, which cannot be appealed, in which it considers the request of the former vice president of the Parliament Josep Costa, one of the accused, and definitively removes Barrientos from the case, who had to preside the trial for disobedience to be held in the Catalan high court from July 12 to 15 next.

According to the TSJC, from an "objective and impartial perspective", the fact that Barrientos left a public act on February 23, 2018 after Torrent referred to the existence of "political prisoners" in Spain, alluding to the leaders of the

, supposes a “demonstration of rejection” that can generate “reasonable doubts” in the accused and in society about their “appearance of impartiality”.

From July 12 to 15, the TSJC will judge the former president of the Parlament Roger Torrent, current

of Business, and the members of JxCat and ERC at the time in the Chamber's Table, for a crime of disobedience by allowing the processing of sovereignist resolutions and of disapproval of the monarchy, for which the Prosecutor's Office asks them for up to one year and eight months of disqualification and a fine of 30,000 euros.

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