The Barcelona Court has definitively filed the legal case for disobedience against the former CUP deputy Anna Gabriel for her support for the October 1 referendum. In an interlocutory order dated November, but which was notified yesterday, the seventh section of the court ordered the definitive dismissal of the case after the Prosecutor’s Office presented a report in which it argued that it did not see any evidence of crime in the action of the ‘ex-leader cupaire. In the procedure, Vox was also named as a popular accusation, but it has not been pronounced within the time limit on whether an oral trial should be opened against Gabriel, with which the Court has decreed the final filing.
A case that started with the procedural cause of the Supreme Court, which was instructed by magistrate Pablo Llarena, is closed. Gabriel was initially charged with rebellion, sedition, embezzlement and disobedience for organizing the referendum. Despite the fact that she was one of the leaders most in favor of unilateralism, in February 2018, three days before the court summons in which she was to be notified of the prosecution, she left for Switzerland and left the first political line. The ex-deputy announced her escape in an interview with the Swiss newspaper Le Temps, in which she stated that she would not have a fair trial in Spain and that by leaving she could protect her rights. “I am being prosecuted for my political activity and the government press has already condemned me”, she explained. Llarena finally prosecuted her for a crime of disobedience that did not carry prison terms, so no international arrest warrant was issued.
Four years after he left, Gabriel appeared before the Supreme Court to surrender and regularize his procedural situation. The magistrate released her and referred the case to the Court of Barcelona to continue the matter. The former deputy of the CUP was accused of promoting the parliamentary initiatives of the disconnection laws, disregarding the TC’s warnings. Since he went to Switzerland, where he continues to live, Gabriel has remained in a discreet background in Catalan politics and has focused all his efforts on the Unia trade union, the majority in Switzerland, where in 2021 he became the first woman who has led the organization of the Geneva region.
