Trial Begins for Four Police Officers Accused of Leaving Activist Roger Español One-Eyed with a Rubber Ball on 1-O
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The prosecution calls for the acquittal of the officers, while the charges claim 13 years in prison for each of them.
The prosecution asks for 13 years in prison for each of the injuries caused to Roger Español, who lost an eye for a rubber bullet / The Prosecutor’s Office sees no crime and asks for absolution Read
The officers sit on the bench this Wednesday after being denied amnesty for the serious injuries caused to a protester
Six international human rights organizations will attend the trial that places four national police officers on the bench for having emptied one eye of an activist during the 1-O referendumThe only victim of 1-O police violence that will bring officers to trial: “I have been carrying this backpack for nine years” Roger Español has been waiting for justice for nine years. On October 1, 2017, he lost an eye for a rubber bullet. According to a Moss…
Two journalists who witnessed the shooting that caused the loss of an eye to Roger Español during the referendum of October 1, 2017 have assured that the National Police officer aimed directly at the demonstrators and not at the ground, as the protocol states. The testimonies have occurred during the first session of the trial against four national police officers, initiated this Wednesday at the Provincial High Court in Barcelona. The defendant…
Nine years after the independence referendum, the Barcelona Court is trying a gunman and three officers for firing a rubber bullet, in the only case of police violence from that day that has reached oral hearings.
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