Trade Union activists of the National Confederation of Work (CNT), sentenced to three and a half years in prison for trade unions in Jyon in 2016, known as “Six Switzerland”, will go to prison immediately after he ruled that the criminal court 1 from John of their income to receive punishment.
The head of the criminal court 1 Jukhon, Lino Rubio Meyo, condemned them in the sentence ratified by the Supreme Court in 2024, for their authorship in a continuous crime of serious coercion and other crime against the administration of justice for their participation in mobilization, which led to the closure of Schweitzrand in Gijyon.
The facts for which they were convicted were “six from Switzerland were dated until 2016, when an employee of the lamas of La Switzerland from Jokhon asked for legal advice CNT after he condemned their poor working conditions, claiming that in their work they ordered tasks that underwent their risk of pregnancy. At the same time, he said that he also became a victim of the alleged case of sexual harassment.
The Action trade union team contacted the company to agree, the employee, but the businessman refused to support any type of assembly, so the trade union called several concentrations in his institutions in which the convicts participated to show their repulsion regarding the owner’s attitude towards the employee. The businessman condemned his participants and reached his conviction for a constant crime of serious coercion and another crime against administration of justice, claiming that from this he was supposed to close his business.
Imprisonment, without waiting for forgiveness
Introduction to prison is made with a request for a pardon represented by the Spanish government, supported by 22 trade union organizations and the Asturia government. The city of Dzhikhon, where the events took place, did not support him on Wednesday for Veto Right. Vice -President of the Government and Minister of Labor Ioland Diaz held a meeting with them, on which she promised to intercede for forgiveness.
The criminal court of 1 jihon, headed by the judge Lino Rubio, rejected a request for paralysis of the conviction, which awaited income in prison a few days a few days ago.
“Six Switzerlands” filed a lawsuit against the European Court of Human Rights in order to consider their case, not receiving the Constitution to accept its appeal.
The case caused an unusual mobilization of trade unions and left -wing parties, which believe that condemnation is a violation of the right to the effect of trade unions, which led to numerous protests and signs of support in the trial, and especially since the Supreme Court ratified the sentence.
The highest ratified the condemnation
In its resolution, the Supreme Court believed that six convicts participated in the campaign of persecution and coercion to the entrepreneur. The criminal camera noted that in proven facts “intentions to insist on an entrepreneur to obtain the goals provided by repeating”, as well as “the methodology performed and that it has not been proven to integrate the implementation of freedom of expression in the framework of the implementation of freedom of the association”.
“There is an excess in action, deployed with a repetition of the consistent action of repeating.” The behavior, which, at the direction of the court, is “seriously.” In his opinion, the proven facts that are intangible, do not imply the implementation of freedom of expression of opinions, but “forced practices, preventing the free implementation of commercial activity with constant pressure of the repeating.”
“This issue was not evaluated, not discussed and was not discussed regarding the activities deployed in the center of the legal union, which operates in accordance with the provisions of art. 28.2 of the Constitution of the Spanish language (CE), but according to the specific facts of some people who have made a criminal prohibition that they were convicted, continued to the decision – for the fact that they themselves conspired to the enterprise when he observes his business. ”
Dignity before conviction for prison
In an interview with Eldiorio.es with three convicted trade union activists, they were restless regarding tough imprisonment, which implied their accession, but was firmly convinced of “consistency”.
There are five women and a man, including among them, who are the parents of a minor who faced a long trial, in which there were originally more than thirty accused. His professions: a veterinarian, an artist, an employee from the social field, an employee in the transport sector, a hospitality officer and a teacher.
“We did what we convinced that we made good help to a woman, a person who needed him at that time. And we did something right. We demonstrated our support from the trade union and feminist point of view. He became a trade union, and Feminism became, ”he explained to Eldiario.es, while exhausted resources to avoid joining prison. On this Wednesday, June 9, he was decided to enter prison, without waiting for a possible forgiveness or statement of European justice in this case.
