Twelve years after the events of this Surround Congress, the 21 accused of the riots of September 25, 2012, the most serious of the time, will be in the dock. The Criminal Court will host from today until November 28 the hearing in which the defendants face prison sentences ranging from seven years and four months to three years and eight months, as requested by the parquet.
In the midst of a hangover from 15-M and while the streets were burning, the coordinator of 25S, an anti-system group that included the Bukaneros, Izquierda Castellana and other ultra-left factions sympathetic to ETA , called for a series of protests.
The goal was to reach the Congress of Deputies and, as a result of everything that happened, began to draft the current Citizen Security Law, in force since 2015 and which, among other things, sought to prohibit demonstrations in areas so close to the headquarters of the institutions. What the left calls the “gag law”, which will now be reformed under the inspiration of Bildu.
The altercations on the night of September 25 and the following hours of the following morning resulted in 35 arrests and at least 64 injuries among demonstrators and police officers.
6,000 people participated in the initial demonstration, but, as is usual in these radical events, the most violent caused damage and attacked the officers at the end.
The defendants face charges of disturbing public order, attacking a law enforcement officer, resisting and causing injury. The 25S coordinator describes the trial as “political”.
