Section 23 of the Provincial Court of Madrid has agreed to search for and capture Daniel Gallardo, the first convicted for the protests in Madrid after the sentence against the leaders of the process was known. During the riots in the capital, as stated in the sentence, Gallardo injured a National Police agent with a wooden stick with nails.
The activist has been requested by this judicial body up to three times (July 25, 2023, January 30 and February 26, 2024) for his voluntary entry into prison in compliance with the execution of the sentence for which he was convicted in December 2020. The interested party has not appeared on any of the three occasions on which he has been summoned and has not been located at the registered address, which has given rise to the judicial resolution.
Section 23 of the Provincial Court of Madrid sentenced Daniel Gallardo, the young man from Madrid who was arrested in October 2019 during the protests in the capital after the 1-O sentence was notified, to four years and six months in prison and special disqualification.
Daniel spent more than a year in provisional prison and, after the oral hearing, he was sentenced to one year in prison for public disorder and another 3 years and 6 months for the crime of attacking law enforcement officials and for a minor crime of injuries.
Then the Supreme Court slightly reduced the sentence imposed by the Provincial Court of Madrid on Daniel Gallardo, who spent just over a year in provisional prison, for a crime of attacking law enforcement officers in ideal competition with another of injuries and another of public disorders.
The Supreme Court considered that both he and another accused, who was sentenced to six months in prison, should have been sentenced for the basic type of public disorder and not the aggravated one.
However, the high court upheld the defendant’s conviction for attacking law enforcement officers and causing injuries, proven in the ruling of the Provincial Court, which was essentially confirmed by the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid.
For these events, a third defendant, Mariano Javier H.J., was also sentenced to pay a fine of 900 euros for resisting law enforcement agents, whose case the Supreme Court has not reviewed since he did not appeal.
The three denied in the trial that they attacked police officers during the riots that occurred after that concentration against the sentences imposed on the Catalan independence leaders by the process, although the Court considered it proven that Daniel Gallardo “suddenly hit him from behind and violently” with a wooden stick with “six nails stuck through it” to an agent in the head.
