The 21 accused activists accused of causing disorder and confronting the Police in the first Surround Congress They face 121 years in prison, more than a decade after the mobilization. The trial begins this Monday in the Criminal Courts of Madrid.
During the protest, thousands of people gathered in Neptuno Square peacefully against institutional corruption. The demonstration ended up being broken up by police charges. The final balance was 34 arrested and 64 injured, 27 of them police officers. Eight of the organizers of the event were prosecuted by the National Court.
The Madrid Prosecutor’s Office charges them with crimes of public disorder in their indictment; attack on authority, resistance, damage and injuries, among others. The trial will be held in the Criminal Court number 20 of Madrid and It will last until next November 28.
The defendants face sentences of between three years and eight months in prison and eight years and two months. The prison request adds up to a total of 121 years in prison.
According to the Prosecutor’s account of events, on the afternoon of September 25, 2012, a large group of people gathered around the security belt established around the Congress of Deputies to protest against institutional corruption.
Several of these individuals climbed the security fence placed in the place, who cheered those gathered there to break and exceed said security perimeter with expressions such as: “we are going to take over Congress, the thieves are there”, going so far as to remove part of the fences from said perimeter.
At that moment, while the officers on duty were preparing to put the fences back in suitable conditions and required the protesters to respect the security cordon, one of the accused climbed one of the aforementioned fences, while He urged those gathered there to break the police force.
So he screamed “We are going to take over Congress, come on, the thieves are in there that they are screwing us and we are taking them out on these gunmen who defend them,” while the members of the group concentrated there threw all kinds of objects at the uniformed men such as bottles, cans, stones and large batteries, as well as They kicked and punched the police officers deployed there several times.
At around 7 p.m. outside the Congress fences and despite the repeated requests made by the police force deployed to respect the security zones, the gatherings began to coordinate to launch themselves like an avalanche over the security fences, while violent protesters threw objects at the acting force and others dismantled the fence and scolded the police who were trying to replace it.
The riots were reproduced in the entire area that included approximately from the Plaza de Cibeles to the Fountain of Neptune, gathering crowd of people at different points who, acting jointly and coordinated with the illicit purpose of altering the peaceful end of the demonstrations called, confronted each other using all types of objects and deploying ambushes against the agents in charge of maintaining public security.
Around 10:30 p.m., some 200 people moved to the Atocha station area with “the same illicit purpose of prevent control of peace and security that the police officers were trying to safeguard, causing serious incidents there,” according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
So They scolded the security guards and caused damage to the station’s furniture, even crossing the tracks, which caused train traffic to stop, throwing objects at the intervening agents, including stones.
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