The first defendant tried for participating in the riots in 2019 at Barcelona's El Prat airport in the framework of the protest called by Tsunami Democràtic against the sentence of the procés, E.S.G., has accepted three years and four months in prison for spraying Mossos agents with a fire extinguisher.
Before the third room of the Barcelona Court, the accused, a young university student from Lleida, acknowledged the facts on Monday after his defense and the public ministry reached an agreement of conformity.
The court has sentenced him 'in voce' for attacking the authority and public disorder, and for each crime has imposed a sentence of 1 year and eight months in prison, with suspension of entry to prison for four years conditional on not committing a crime. new and to pay a fine of 1,440 euros.
According to the prosecution's indictment, E.S.G. He participated in the large concentration at the El Prat airport on October 14, 2019 called by Tsunami Democràtic to protest against the procés sentence, a demonstration that led to riots and clashes with the police.
The accused was in the lobby of Terminal 1 of the airport that connects with the metro station of line 9 and maintained an active participation during the concentration with the aim of "attacking public peace and paralyzing the activity of said critical infrastructure ".
In the context of an "authentic situation of chaos", continues the public ministry, the Mossos d'Esquadra had to establish two police containment lines with the aim of controlling the protesters.
The accused, who was in front of one of the police lines set up by the Mossos, took a fire extinguisher that he had hung on one of the columns in the hall and activated it, intentionally directing the hose at the agents "with the consequent risk of intoxication as it is a closed space". "He then threw the fire extinguisher at them, finally falling to the ground between two police lines," the prosecutor's brief defends.
