Paris, (EFE).- The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg requested additional information from the parties before determining whether to admit the lawsuits filed against Spain by Oriol Junqueras, Jordi Turull and Jordi Sánchez.
The decision, adopted on the 4th and published this Tuesday, is a procedure prior to a possible pronouncement on said complaints, sources from the instance told EFE, who indicated that, although the request for this information usually leads to an admission The procedure does not presuppose it.
Until September 1 to respond to the Court
The State attorney has until September 1 to answer the questions sent by the Court and, from that moment, it will be the plaintiffs’ lawyers who will be able to present their allegations.
With this information, the Strasbourg judges will determine whether the complaints filed by various judicial decisions adopted by Spanish courts against the three leaders of the 2017 independence process can be admitted for processing.
Appeals presented in Strasbourg
The three plaintiffs, who have also filed appeals before Strasbourg for their sedition and embezzlement convictions for the independence process, consider that the Spanish courts did not protect their rights by preventing them from participating in the December 2017 regional campaign.
Junqueras and Turull also consider that the courts denied them protection to attend the inaugural plenary session of that legislature and, in the case of the second, to attend his own inauguration as president in March 2018.
Sánchez also denounces the suspension of his parliamentary status.
Request to Spain
The three also sue Spain for the partiality of some of the Constitutional magistrates who handed down the sentences that prevented them from exercising their political rights.
Turull was placed in preventive detention on March 23, 2018, one day before he did not obtain the absolute majority necessary to be sworn in as President of the Generalitat in the first vote and one day before the second vote was held, which he could not assist.
A few months later, on May 14, Quim Torra was sworn in in the second vote with a simple majority.
