On October 1, 2017, the illegal secessionist consultation promoted and executed by the Government of the Generalitat chaired by Carles Puigdemont was held. Six years after the illegal referendum, the Supreme Court is once again in the spotlight regarding the possibility that Pedro Sánchez will grant an amnesty to the leaders of the process in exchange for their access to his investiture as President of the Government. The Supreme Court will first be responsible for applying this hypothetical amnesty law.
In February 2019, the trial of those who made up the Government of the Generalitat when the independence of Catalonia was declared began in the High Court, with the exception of Puigdemont and the rest of the escaped former councilors, Antonio Comín, Lluis Puig and Clara Ponsatí .
EL MUNDO has had access to the video that the Chamber itself recorded during the four months that the oral hearing was extended. The images reveal the lesser-known moments experienced by the seven magistrates who prosecuted the Catalan separatist challenge; largely captured during the breaks held during the course of the trial held in the Plenary Hall of the High Court.
They were intense months, where the Supreme Court judges lived with enormous responsibility the role that they had been assigned to play: being responsible within the structure of the State for providing a criminal response to those who unilaterally declared the independence of Catalonia in October 2017.
The court, composed of judges Manuel Marchena (president and speaker), Andrés Martínez Arrieta, Juan Ramón Berdugo, Andrés Palomo del Arco, Ana Ferrer, Antonio Moral and Luciano Varela, always acted cohesively, ruling on October 14, 2019 unanimously. his sentence with the convictions of those responsible for 1-O.
The images of the unpublished video, of which only the closest circle of the Chamber has been aware, reflect, for example, the tribute that his fellow judges paid to Judge Varela on the occasion of his retirement. Another of the human moments that the visual document reflects is the visit made to the Court by a young man with disabilities who wanted to be a judge and followed every day of the trial of the process every day.
