The trial will last until next Friday and they are accused of disobedience and prebarition for the consultation of November 14, 2014. For the masses, the prosecution demands a 10-year disqualification and for the two councillors a nine-and-a-half year.

Summoned by the ANC and Omnium, 50,000 citizens have registered to accompany the defendants to the court, under the motto On February 6 we will all be judged. They will meet before the High Court of Justice of Catalonia at 8:45 a.m. on Avenida Lluis Companys. The two organizations have organized the mobilizations until Friday. President Carles Puigdemont will also accompany the defendants to the door.

It was disobedience

Independentism considers the November 9 consultation as its most important move so far, exceeding expectations by 2.3 million people who voted that day and 1.9 million of them in favor of independence. This is a very large number, especially since the Constitutional Court banned the consultation.

The constant threat to the Generalitat in Madrid in recent months forced the Generalitat to change the characterization of the consultation, transforming what should be binding into a process of citizen participation. The masses, however, wanted to give it a binding character and announced that if they won yes, the autonomous elections would become plebiscitary.

In the end, the Generalitat delegated the final organization of the process to 41,000 volunteers of the ANC and Omnium, but public schools and city councils were used to install the ballot boxes and the Spanish courts accuse the Generalitat of carrying out the organization until the end.

Independentism considers the consultation of 9 November and its outcome as a great victory and proudly ventures it as the greatest act of disobedience perpetrated so far by the Catalans. In the Independentism, however, there have been several critical sectors regarding the form in which this consultation was conducted, which they believe should have been total disobedience, without leaving the last part in the organization to the volunteers.

The spokesman of the Generalitat of the time, Francesc Homs, is also prosecuted for the consultation of November 9, but as a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain, the Supreme Court of Spain is acting epaitzen.Oraingoan yes, a binding referendum

The trial comes in the context of a genuine referendum. In principle, it was announced by the Generalitat for September, but in recent weeks voices have been heard – mainly from the ERC and the CUP – saying that it can be done before the summer. This is also prohibited by the Constitutional Court. Unlike in 2014, the Generalitat and the Catalan Parliament will consider the result of the referendum as binding. The environment is in full swing and the Spanish Government has announced that it is already prepared to suspend Catalan autonomy, using Article 155 of the Constitution for this purpose.

Solidarity from the Basque Country

In the Basque Country, several solidarity initiatives are also being carried out in favor of the defendants. The Basque Parliament, with the votes of the PNV and the EH Assembly, supported the three last week and on Sunday Our Hands held meetings in the four capitals of the South, bringing together 1,000 people under the slogan "Democracy". The Association announced that "The mobilizations have had two main objectives: on the one hand, to show solidarity with the elected representatives and the citizens of Catalonia; and, on the other, to spread the cry of democracy to the four winds: “Those of us who have gathered here today believe that only by deepening democracy will we build a better future.”