The Barcelona Court has definitively closed the judicial case opened for disobedience against the former CUP deputy Anna Gabriel for her support for the October 1 referendum. In an order dated in November but which was notified yesterday, the seventh section of the court has ordered the definitive dismissal of the matter after the Prosecutor's Office presented a report arguing that it did not see signs of crime in the actions of the former Cupera leader. Vox was also involved in the procedure as a popular accusation, but it has not ruled within the deadline on whether an oral trial should be opened against Gabriel, so the Court has decreed the definitive file.
Thus, a case that began with the cause of the process in the Supreme Court that was instructed by Judge Pablo Llarena is closed. Gabriel was initially charged with rebellion, sedition, embezzlement and disobedience for organizing the referendum. Although she was one of the leaders most in favor of unilateralism, in February 2018, three days before the court summons in which they were to inform her of her prosecution, she left for Switzerland and abandoned the political front line. The former deputy announced her escape in an interview in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps in which she stated that in Spain she was not going to have a fair trial and with her departure she could protect her rights. “I am being prosecuted for my political activity and the government press has already condemned me,” she explained. Llarena finally prosecuted her for a crime of disobedience that did not carry prison sentences, so no international arrest warrant was issued.
Four years after his departure, Gabriel appeared before the Supreme Court to surrender and regularize his procedural situation. The magistrate released her and referred her case to the Barcelona Court to continue with the matter. The former CUP deputy was accused of promoting parliamentary initiatives for the disconnection laws, ignoring the warnings of the TC.
Since leaving for Switzerland, where he continues to live, Gabriel has remained in a discreet background in Catalan politics and has focused all his efforts on the Unia union, the majority union in Switzerland, where in 2021 she became the first woman to lead the organization of the Geneva region.
