The Junta de Andalucía does not give in in the case of union members tried for a labor protest in one of its delegations in Granada, for those who even asked for five years in prison. After the acquittal of the accused in a criminal court, the Administration presided over Juan Manuel Moreno Bonillaof the PPhas appealed the sentence before the Provincial Court of Granada, in which, as a private accusation, it requests 15 months in prison for each of the defendants for a crime of coercion.
The Criminal Court number 3 of Granada acquitted in September to the three members of the Andalusian Workers Union (SAT) accused of a crime of public disorder allegedly committed during a protest against the dismissal of a cleaning worker. Judge Antonio Aguilera concluded that the defendants did not commit any violent act either at the time of entering the Tourism Delegation of the Board in Granada, where the cleaner worked, or when they were on the third floor of the building, where the the delegate’s office, according to what was testified as witnesses at the trial by a national police and the security guard which was at the entrance of the property.
In the ruling now appealed by the Board, it is concluded that “in no way has it been proven that, as the private prosecution maintains, the group of about ten people, among whom were the accused, violently entered the building, passing without the mandatory precautions to control access to it, nor generating a feeling of intimidation in the security personnel“.
The appeal presented by the provincial legal office of the Ministry of the Presidency of the Board considers that two of the accused, the Secretary of Organization of the SAT in Granada, Néstor Salvador, and the cleaning worker Vanesa Sánchez, also a member of that union , should have been condemned as authors of the trespass with violence or intimidation of residence, by virtue of the declaration made by the secretary of the territorial delegate of the autonomous Administration, and requests for each of them a sentence of one year and three months in prison for a crime of coercion.
The Board’s assessment of the facts contradicts, however, that of the National Police Corps official who intervened in that protest, who stated in the trial that seven or eight people were found on the stairs in “very peaceful attitude“, that they left “without fuss or voices” and that he did not see any serious disturbance, as detailed in the appealed sentence.
At the end of the trial, the Board decided to reduce his request for a prison sentence from 5 years to 15 months, while the prosecution He reduced it from 15 months in prison to eight months of fine and maintained it only for one of the three defendants, Néstor Salvador, who assures that they are not yet aware that the public ministry has decided to appeal the sentence, as the Andalusian Administration has already done. .
SAT: “it is a scandal, a shame”
The Secretary of Organization of the SAT in Granada has described it as “a public scandal, a shame” that the Board allocates public money and legal personnel of the Andalusian administration to extend this judicial process. In his opinion, the only objective pursued by the Moreno Bonilla Board is the union repressiononce it was demonstrated in the trial that there was no violence or public disorder in the labor protest of the Tourism Delegation.
“The only thing that can be understood from this resource is that it comes freebecause it is paid with public money. That is an embezzlement of public funds, when you know that it makes no sense to continue with this process,” Néstor Salvador told Público.
The SAT considers that this judicial process has political purposeswith the clear intention of interfering in union activity and generating wear and tear in their organizations. According to Salvador, for this reason they are going to take measures, in collaboration with other unions and social movements, to denounce these events and carry out a public campaign against the “union repression” carried out by the Board.
The events prosecuted occurred during a union protest in March 2021, when a group of protesters gathered in the territorial delegation of the Board for the dismissal of Vanesa Sánchez, who had been working for 11 years in successive subcontracted companies for cleaning service in that administration.
The cleaning employee had reported to the Labor Inspection that she was being paid less than what was due and then, when the service was subcontracted to another company, the only one of the 70 workers on the staff who was not subcontracted was, precisely, her.
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