The Supreme Court has applied this Friday for the first time the amnesty law promoted by the Government and its pro-independence partners for all those prosecuted for the procés. The Criminal Chamber has agreed to grant the measure of grace to eight people whom the Audiencia de Girona condemned for disobedience and public disorder after the incidents that occurred in the protests that followed the sentence against the leaders of the procés. The Constitutional Court dismissed last October a question of unconstitutionality raised by the Supreme Court regarding the amnesty law within the framework of these appeals, but the Criminal Chamber did not apply the decision of the court of guarantees pending the judgment of the Court of Justice of the EU on the measure of grace. Once the European court endorsed the law last week, the Criminal Chamber has agreed to amnesty all those convicted.
The amnesty for those convicted of public disorder is not the only one pending resolution by the Supreme Court, but it is the first that, once the CJEU judgment was issued, had no pending resolution that could lead the Criminal Chamber to continue postponing its decision. The resolution known this Friday marks a milestone because it is the first time that the high court grants amnesty, which it has openly opposed since the law came into force in July 2024. However, this decision does not mean that the chamber will also amnesty in the coming weeks the pro-independence leaders it condemned or prosecuted for rebellion, including former president Carles Puigdemont and former vice president Oriol Junqueras, whom it has so far refused to amnesty.
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