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Originally published in Spanish: “Las 20 frases de la Fiscalía que han tumbado el ‘juicio político’ de las defensas”. Ángela Martialay y Antonio Salvador. El Independiente.
1 – “The right to decide belongs to the Spanish people as a whole”.
2 – “What belongs to all of us is not a matter to be decided by just a few”.
3 – “There is no democratic legality outside constitutional legality”.
4 – “There is no such thing as a Catalan sovereignty, but the sovereignty of the Spanish people. The right to decide belongs to the whole Spanish people”.
5 – “This trial is on behalf of a democratic political system”.
6 – “The sovereignty of the Spanish people cannot be replaced by the one of any one of its component peoples”.
7 – Political activity “is not a letter of marque to justify the engagement in criminal activities. Secessionism is not the subject of this legal process”.
8 – “The exercise of political action is not a reason for exemption from legal liability”.
9 – “Here we are not judging political leaders who claimed for liberties, but who sought to take them away”.
10 – The secessionist leaders “plotted a large-scale wide-scope criminal plan”.
11 – “What is being judged is an arranged, meticulous, multiconvergent plan to carry out” a violent public uprising to challenge the constitutional order.
12 – “This is democracy’s victory trial”.
13 – “Some statements, rather than defense statements, are accusatory libels”.
14 – “No one is prosecuted for his or her ideas, but for his or her actions”.
15 – “[They sought to] ban the Spanish Constitution and the Catalan Statute through a parallel legality”.
16 – “To link proportionate use of force by police to tortures is a legal nonsense of significant proportions”.
17 – “Dialogue through imposition is not acceptable in a democratic state”.
18 – “Everyone is free to disagree from law, but no one can disobey it”.
19 – “The risk of fleeing is obvious. Just consider that six people are not available for this court by putting themselves beyond justice action’s range”.
20 – “The Mossos d’ Escuadra [the Catalan police forces] are totally sided with rebellion”.
