29th March 2024

Josep Lluis Trapero

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Catalan Trial: Day 26 summary

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Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont pledged to declare independence if the 2017 independence referendum led to ‘incidents’, according to Ferran López, the then second-in-command of
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Right to defence being undermined, say lawyers

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Lawyers defending Catalan independence leaders on trial are increasingly protesting decisions by judges at Spain’s Supreme Court, which they argue undermine their clients’ right to
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Catalan Trial: Day 18 summary

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Week 6 and the 18th day of the Catalan trial started on Tuesday morning with the testimony of Felipe Martínez, the deputy secretary of the Spanish
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Catalan Trial: Day 17 summary

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On the 17th day of the Catalan trial, government officials who were allegedly in charge of the campaign to advertise the 2017 independence referendum, deemed
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Catalan Trial: Day 14 summary

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In the days leading up to the independence referendum on 1 October 2017, none of the three police forces charged with halting the vote expected
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Catalan Trial: Day 11 summary

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Some pro-independence protests were peaceful, but ‘others were violent, with harassment, and objects thrown,’ Enric Millo, the Spanish government delegate in Catalonia during the 2017 political
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Catalan Trial: Day 10 summary

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‘The force used was the minimum required,’ Spain’s former secretary of state for security said about the Spanish police operation to stop the 1 October
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National Court confirms it will try former Mossos leadership

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Spain’s National Court has confirmed that it will try the former leadership of the Catalan police, the Mossos d’Esquadra, for its role in the independence
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Outrage as prosecutor doubts Catalan judges’ impartiality

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A prosecutor in Spain’s National Court has cast doubts over the ‘impartiality’ of Catalan judges to try former Catalan police chief Josep Lluís Trapero and
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Pre-trial hearing set for former Catalan police chief

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Spain’s High Court in Madrid (the Audiencia Nacional) has set 5 February for a pre-trial hearing in the cases of former officials in charge of the Catalan