The Provincial Court of Barcelona has ordered this Tuesday to investigate the complaint for torture that Jordi Ros, one of the members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR) prosecuted for terrorism by the National Court, filed against the 11 civil guards who detained him. in September 2019 and guarded his transfer to Madrid. The court considers that these are “serious” events that may involve the violation of fundamental rights and therefore must be investigated. In the order, the third section of the Barcelona Court upholds the appeal presented by Ros and orders court number 2 of Sabadell to accept his complaint for processing.
Jordi Ros maintains in the complaint that he was coerced and threatened during the searches carried out during his detention, without being allowed to appoint a lawyer. He also maintains that during the transfer to Madrid, with stops at Civil Guard offices in Sant Andreu de la Barca (Barcelona) and Tres Cantos (Madrid), he was scolded and forced to maintain a forced posture, and that he was not allowed to sleep. , while receiving threats that his girlfriend or members of his family would be arrested.
Furthermore, the defendant, who after his arrest confessed to having experimented with explosives but later recanted citing pressure from the Civil Guard, denounces that the agents forced his brother to remain sitting on the landing of his house for 10 hours, without being able to speak to him. no one, despite the fact that he suffers from a mental pathology. The Sabadell judge who received the complaint ordered a series of proceedings, but declared himself incompetent to investigate the events that occurred outside his judicial district.
The Provincial Court reproaches the judge for the “poor investigation carried out to date and the delays” that the case has accumulated, and orders him to fully admit the complaint filed by Ros, so that he investigates the facts “with maximum efficiency and completeness.” ”. For the court, these events “have a criminal appearance”, without the “context of tension” at the time in which the arrests were carried out (weeks before the sentence of the processes) allows us to rule out the crimes mentioned in the complaint.
The court maintains that the facts “may constitute crimes of torture and crimes against fundamental rights committed by agents of authority”, which is why they must be investigated, “as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and our Constitutional Court repeatedly point out. ”.
The group of lawyers from the pro-independence left Alerta Solidària asserted this Tuesday that this case shows that “amnesty for some is daily”, criticizing the “slowness and sloppiness” of justice in the face of the complaint filed against the civil guards. “There are no amnesties or dialogue tables or clarity agreements that are worth it. The system is rotten and, if we do not want to rot with it, we have to wake up and escape,” the platform maintains in the statement.
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The role of Jordi Ros in the CDR
Jordi Ros emerged in 2019 as one of the key pieces of the Tactical Response Team (ERT), the most radical sector of the CDR that, according to the investigating judge of Operation Judas, Manuel García-Castellón, intended to “achieve the materialization of the Catalan Republic through any means, including violent ones.” García-Castellón detected two cells within ERT: a “protective core,” which allegedly acquired the material necessary to produce explosives, and an “executor core.” Ros is credited with the purchase of chemicals considered precursors to explosives and material for their treatment. Notes that read “bomb scheme” were also found in the police search of his home. In his house he had set up a laboratory to test explosives, according to the investigation.
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