The PSOE and the independentistas touch up the scope of the amnesty law for terrorism crimes
The PSOE and the pro-independence parties (Junts, ERC, Bildu and the PNV), in addition to Sumar and Podemos, have reached an agreement to agree on an amendment to the amnesty law proposal that addresses the controversial issue of the treatment of crimes of terrorism. These parties have agreed that terrorism crimes will be excluded in the law when they are punished in Chapter VII of Book II of the Penal Code as long as “manifestly and with direct intention, they have caused serious violations of human rights,” in in particular, “of articles 2 and 3 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and in international humanitarian law.”
Junts intended to remove from the law the part that excludes final convictions for terrorism from the pardon measure. Junts’ request came after the judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón has attributed terrorism crimes to former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont (Junts) and the general secretary of ERC, Marta Rovira, in the Tsunami Democràtic case.
In the first amnesty bill registered in Congress, the norm stated that cases with a “final sentence” for terrorism crimes would be excluded from it, which now modifies this amendment, to which all states have adhered. other groups of the majority that support the Government. That is to say, now the reference to final sentences disappears, meaning that terrorism crimes with a final sentence would be amnestiable as long as they do not incur “serious human rights violations.”