The TSJC maintains the trial of Roger Torrent against the criteria of the Prosecutor's Office and the defenses

The Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) has agreed to maintain the trial against the former president of Parliament Roger Torrent (ERC) and the pro-independence members of his Bureau, against the criteria of the Prosecutor's Office and the defenses.

In the first of the three scheduled days of the trial, the process has been about to be suspended.

Both the defenses of the four defendants and the Prosecutor's Office have requested to postpone the oral hearing until the request, made by the prosecutor, to revoke the disqualification of Judge Carlos Ramos is resolved.

The judge was going to be one of the members of the court, but he was removed from the case last August on suspicion of bias.

The previous month, Judge Jesús María Barrientos, president of the TSJC, had been challenged for the same reasons.

The president of the court, Carlos Mir, has rejected the request and has ordered that the trial continue: “We have the obligation to hold the trial.

No appeal can be lodged against that decision.”

The magistrate has reasoned that, "with the time that it has been known that the trial should be held", between October 5 and 7, the court has "the obligation" to carry it out, because, he has added "no it makes sense to prolong and that it never ends”.

The four accused -Adriana Delgado, Eusebi Campdepadrós, Josep Costa and Torrent- arrived half an hour before the session started, at 9:30 a.m., surrounded by a hundred people in front of the Palace of Justice in Barcelona.

Among the leaders who have shown their solidarity with the members of the Parliament's table were members of the Government such as the Minister of Justice, Lourdes Ciuró, or the head of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà.

Representatives of the two parties that support the Government - now plunged into a serious crisis that threatens its rupture - have also attended, such as Laura Borràs (Junts) or the former vice president Oriol Junqueras (Esquerra).

The deputy of the CUP Carles Riera and representatives of Òmnium Cultural and Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC).

📸 Avui som davant el TSJC to donate support to the companies and companies of the #Parlament Table to the judiciary to allow them to speak of #self-determination and 👑 monarchy.

✊ The repression will not ensaturate!

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– Republican Left (@Esquerra_ERC) October 5, 2022

Before entering, Torrent has declared that he will defend before the judge "the protection of fundamental rights and parliamentarism" and that he is protected by the right to freedom of expression, adding that this case is part "of the persecution of the independence movement."

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