After more than a month of work, the first reports are beginning to circulate about a possible amnesty law with which the Catalan crisis can be put to rest. The criminal oblivion is a counterpart for a new investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
The content of the first draft that has passed is that of Sumar, the group led by Yolanda Díaz, who has already sent the text to the pro-independence parties as a starting point for the negotiations.
This matter is being played on several sides. The leader of Sumar wanted to lead it from the beginning, forming a team of lawyers to present their own proposal and going to Brussels to hold a meeting with the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont, one of the beneficiaries of this measure.
Parliamentary sources clarify that Sumar's proposal is completely independent of the work that the PSOE may be doing on its own, but in the medium term Sumar hopes to present a single proposal.
This formation has proposed an expansive amnesty, which will benefit all those who have a judicial process opened in the last decade linked to the process, so that it could affect around 1,400 people from the pro-independence orbit alone. It would be necessary to add the police – half a hundred – with criminal cases for the clashes with the voters during the 1-O and in subsequent moments. The idea of the architects of the amnesty proposed by Sumar is to apply a general criminal oblivion that would equally affect independence supporters and those who are involved in judicial investigations from the other side.
It is a controversial issue. For pro-independence, the police officers should not benefit from the amnesty because, in their opinion, they went against the victims of the process, the activists themselves.
This generalist criterion could also affect the ideologues of Operation Catalonia launched by the State to counter the secessionist movement. For now, no investigation has been opened by the National Court against the controversial ex-commissioner José Manuel Villarejo for exposing Catalan pro-independence leaders. However, there have been attempts to file lawsuits in some courts against high-ranking police officers and politicians.
On the other hand, those investigated for corruption would not benefit, which excludes the former president of the Parliament Laura Borràs, despite the fact that some Junts militants insist on including her.
Other defendants who could be left out of the project drawn up by Sumar's team of lawyers are those accused of terrorism, currently nine defendants, in the case of the CDRs.
Among the main beneficiaries of Sumar's proposal would be Puigdemont and the former councilors prosecuted by the 1-Oque who have not yet been prosecuted. Another of the keys to the amnesty will be the Court of Auditors cases, pending trials for the 1-O and the external action of the Generalitat, for which 3.4 million euros are claimed.
