Arnaldo Otegi, basic coordinator of EH BilduEuropa Press
The Prosecutor’s Office has supported Arnaldo Otegi in his request that the trial in opposition to him for the try to rebuild Batasuna not be repeated, as ordered by the Supreme Court. The Public Ministry has despatched a letter to the Constitutional Court siding with the chief of EH Bildu, who was sentenced to 6 and a half years in jail for that case, referred to as Bateragune. The argument, the “non bis in idem”, the authorized precept of not attempting somebody once more for info which have already been tried and for which, as well as, he has served a jail sentence.
Otegi was sentenced in 2011 to 10 years in jail, though the Supreme Court decreased the sentence a yr later. The politician appealed his sentence earlier than Strasbourg. The European Court agreed with him in the truth that he had violated his proper to an neutral decide. Upon profitable in Europe, Otegi went to the Supreme Court to annul the sentence, however the High Court responded by annulling the trial and ordering it to be repeated.
Otegi appealed once more to the Constitutional Court and has discovered the endorsement of the prosecution who believes {that a} new trial would trigger him hurt: “For an individual who has already suffered the primary trial with an objectively non-impartial decide, whose sentence has already served and in whose profit a overview judgment was handed down, the second prosecution doesn’t indicate any benefit and an evident and quick injury”.
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