The Supreme Court has confirmed a sentence of three and a half years in prison for an activist accused of hitting two police officers on the head with a stick during altercations that occurred in a protest in front of the Parliament of Catalonia on the first anniversary of the 1 -O, October 1, 2018.
The Criminal Chamber of the high court has ratified the punishment imposed on Adrián Sas by the Court of Barcelona in the first place, before it was endorsed by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia for crimes of attack and injuries.
In addition to the prison sentence, he was sentenced to pay total compensation of 1,800 euros to the two agents he injured and was acquitted of the crime of public disorder of which he was also accused by the prosecutor and the private prosecution carried out by the Generalitat.
The events, as proven by the lower court ruling, occurred around 8 p.m. on October 1, 2018, the first anniversary of the independence referendum, declared illegal.
The accused was in front of the Parliament, in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, ??in a protest in which some protesters threw objects, and shook and moved the fences that the Mossos had placed.
At one point, according to the resolution, the accused, with a red scarf that covered part of his face, hit two police officers on the chin, hand and helmet with a wooden stick more than a meter long. length in which there was a cloth as a flag.
When reviewing his appeal, the Supreme Court justices highlight that the trial court based its sentence on valid evidence with sufficient incriminating significance to prove his participation in the events.
The trial, in which the accused denied any relationship with the attacks on the police, caused a political controversy, as the Generalitat ignored the sovereigntist groups in the Parliament and maintained its requests for prison for this independence protester during the hearing.
A week before the trial, in a joint initiative, the sovereigntist parties of the Parliament (JxCat, ERC, Comunes and the CUP) urged the Generalitat to withdraw as a private accusation. The then Minister of the Presidency, Meritxell Budó, justified the actions of the Generalitat’s lawyer in the trial by arguing that she tried to request the postponement of the hearing in search of an “agreement”, but that the defense rejected it.
