Spain's National Court has already extended the actions for charges of sedition to impute the presidents of the entities ANC (Catalan National Assembly) and Omnium Cultural, Jordi Sánchez and Jordi Cuixant. These two imputations were more or less expected. However, the magistrate has now included the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) in the case, and has imputed its chief, Josep Lluís Trapero, and the superintendent who supervised the police operation on the day of the concentration, Teresa Laplana. All four are already cited to declare this Friday.
The citations were received yesterday afternoon during the final stretch of the standstill that mobilised hundreds of thousands of citizens to show their rejection of the police repression by the state's security forces during the vote on Sunday. The National Court judge quotes them in the framework of the complaint of sedition, but does not specify the exact offense charged to them.
What it does detail is that it is investigating them "for the events that took place on 20th and 21st September in Catalonia, in relation to the concentrations and demonstrations carried out to prevent by force the actions of the authorities and their agents in the exercise of their functions."
Last 27th September the judge admitted to the proceedings the complaint presented by the Public Prosecutor's Office for these events. In the interlocutory, the judge explained that the behaviour of the protestors could fit within article 544 of the Criminal Code that punishes tumultuous uprising, directed 'to prevent by force or outside legal channels the application of the laws, or any of the people that relate to the exercise in their functions or fulfillment, through their agreements or administrative or judicial resolutions'.
The head of the court of instruction number 3 at the National Court has formally decided upon these proceedings one week after admitting the complaint presented by the Public Prosecutor's Office, understanding that the facts of the complaint can be constituted of crimes of sedition "aimed at breaking the territorial organisation of the state".