Barcelona, (EFE) attenuated, and not aggravated, for former senior government officials.
In an interview with EFE, the Republican candidate has defended the strategy of the dialogue channel between the Generalitat and the State, but has accused the Government of not fulfilling its part.
A week ago, the Prosecutor’s Office requested 7 years in prison for the ERC deputy and former government official Josep Maria Jové, and six years and three months for the president of the Port of Barcelona, Lluís Salvadó, by applying the aggravated modality of embezzlement. , in addition to prevarication and disobedience, for organizing 1-O.
The public ministry thus followed the criteria of the Supreme Court, which in the review of the sentence of the ‘procés’ ruled out that the expenses of 1-O fit into the crime of attenuated embezzlement introduced in the reform of the Criminal Code, provided for cases in that there is no profit motive.
A fact with which Maragall believes that the “contradictions and different attitudes within the State and the enormous responsibility of the PSOE in managing these contradictions” are highlighted, such as the interpretation that the judicial leadership and the Prosecutor’s Office have made of the legal reform agreed between the Government and ERC and approved in the Cortes.
The mayor of ERC has recalled that “there is a direct dependency” of the State Prosecutor’s Office and Lawyer’s Office with respect to the Government and has been blunt: “Here there is a clear breach of some agreements, which exist. We are in a position to vindicate the agreements and criticize the breaches”.
“The judicial forces interpret (the agreements), but the Spanish Government should be respecting them. And when the Prosecutor’s Office says what it says or the State Attorney’s Office, we will see what it says, we will verify to what extent they are respecting the agreements or not ”, she warned.
Asked if he believes that the Lawyers and the Prosecutor’s Office should apply an attenuated modality of embezzlement, Maragall replied: “That’s obvious, isn’t it?”, he said emphatically. “I understand that they should apply an interpretation that is evidently included and formulated in the literal texts of the reform of the Penal Code that we agreed on.”
“And here there is direct responsibility of the Government of the PSOE, which is the one who directs this area. We will verify what the basic attitude is ”, he stressed.
