



https://directa.cat/actual….translated mostly from post below by Jesus Rodriquez, with thanks.

The prosecution requested five years prison each for a boycott campaign of the dept. store chain El Corte Inglés, which are upmarket stores histrorically controlled by far right anti-union commercial interests.

The three militants of the CNT Barcelona are accused of crimes of obstruction of justice and coercion in a boycott campaign started in the fall of 2015, which was in solidarity against the trial of two anarchists for picketing incidents at one of the stores back in the general strike of 29 March 2012.

The boycott was a success and the original 3 picketers were cleared, but then 24 people were accused of the Boycott, now reduced to only three, but demanding long sentences.

The prosecutor Barcelona, ​​Silvia Canal, presented a heavy indictment calling for the three militants of the CNT in Barcelona to be sentenced to five years in prison ..

The prosecutor also demanded a sentence of 18 months-fine, barring the right of passive suffrage and a prohibition to approach closer than a thousand meters of any establishment of El Corte Ingles

The CNT in Barcelona, ​​in a statement, denounced that “we are facing a hardening of the brutal persecution of trade unionists and workers in struggle.”

It is not an isolated case. Following the general strikes of 2010 and 2012 dozens of continuing criminal proceedings were opened against members of pickets. For example the court cases against the mobilization of the workforce Coca-Cola, the students and workers in Barcelona University, the miners in Leon and Asturias, companies like Arcelor, Airbus as well as farm labourers in Andalusia, among more examples.

“We won’t fall into the trap of declaring ourselves innocent at any price. We recognize the conflict and don’t follow an idea of ​​unionism channeled only towards the only option of the courts” Salellas added. “This case is a frontal attack on the historical solidarity of antirepressive campaigns”.

original en català

La fiscalia demana cinc anys de presó per una campanya de boicot a El Corte Inglés