SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION -- Catalan News Agency - Judges supporting Catalonia’s self-determination denounce disclosure of their personal profiles
Catalan News Agency - Judges supporting Catalonia’s self-determination denounce disclosure of their personal profiles
Judges supporting Catalonia’s self-determination denounce disclosure of their personal profiles
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Barcelona (ACN).- The 33 judges who signed the manifesto
in favour of Catalonia’s right to self-determination, stating that it
“is a nation without discussion”, and therefore has “full sovereignty to
decide on its own future”, have filed a complaint after photos of their
personal profiles were published in a Madrid-based newspaper on Monday.
The complaint was filed for revealing personal information, arguing
that such pictures can only have been accessed from computers used by
the Spanish Police or the Spanish Ministry of Home Affairs. Therefore,
the judges have asked to open an investigation to find out who divulged
such confidential information. In their manifesto, the judges, some of
them former members of the body governing judicial power in Spain
(CGPJ), stated that the Catalan people’s right to decide on its
relationship with the rest of Spain fitted into the current
constitutional framework and was in line with international law. It
was the first time that Spanish State civil servants made such a clear
statement in favour of Catalonia’s right to self-determination.
Spanish newspaper La Razón has published on Monday the
pictures of the 33 judges who signed the manifesto, 29 of which were
photos of their official ID cards. The judges recalled that other judges
do not have direct access to such a database and that only police
officers from the Spanish Police Corps or the Spanish Ministry of Home
Affairs have access to these pictures and thus could have divulged such
information.
The right to self-determination is within the Constitutionals frame
Earlier this February, the 33 judges had signed a manifesto in favour of Catalonia’s right to self-determination.
According to these law experts, such a right is not mentioned within
the Spanish Constitution and, therefore, it is to be interpreted
according to international legislation and from a “lively and dynamic
perspective, not a sacrosanct one”. They concluded that the Catalan
people’s right to decide on its relationship with the rest of Spain was
in accordance with the current constitutional framework and also in line
with international law.
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The main entrance to Barcelona and L'Hospitalet judicial campus (by ACN)
