The National Court has ordered the release without bail bond for three of the five people who were until now in custody, detained under the ‘Operation Piñata’, anti anarchist raids, on 31 March.

As explained Daniel Amelang to the paper Diagonal, one of the lawyers representing the defendants in Operation Piñata, they are now waiting for the Court to rule on the freedom of the other two people who are still in custody.

“The Court has held that the detention was disproportionate,” explains Amelang. “So far maintained the charges against them, but they have seen that it is unnecessary are now in prison,” he concludes. It is expected that at least three people to whom the Court has confirmed the release without bail out along this afternoon of the various prisons to which they were scattered on May 18.

In all three cases for which the release is ordered, the Third Section of the Criminal Division of the National Court notes that the decision of the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Eloy Velasco ( the High Court controlled by the neo fascist Right) did not provide “sufficient” evidence or realization of alleged terrorist activities allegedly committed by detainees when he ordered their entry into custody.

He also cites an action of defense of one of the detainees in which it noted that the link between GAC [Anarchist Groups Coordinated] and terrorism was “absolutely arbitrary.”

Operation Piñata took place on March 30 and led to the sacking of several occupied anarchist social centers in Madrid and the arrest of 28 people, fifteen of them accused of being part of an anarchist terrorist organization and other offenses of disobedience, resistance or encroachment .

The operation was ordered by the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Eloy Velasco, who claims that the detainees would be part of an alleged terrorist platform called Coordinated Anarchist Groups (GAC) that would be related to an international group called FAI / FRI.

The operation was a continuation of Operation Pandora, ordered by Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez of the National Court which took place mainly in Barcelona on 16 December. In its framework they were arrested eleven people. Seven of them were sent to custody until January 30 Bermúdez decided their release on bail of 3,000 euros.

Judge Velasco orders the blocking of bank accounts opened in solidarity with the detainees of Pandora

The same day that the High Court has ordered the release without bail for three of the detainees Piñata operation, the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Eloy Velasco, isntructor of this case, has ordered the blockade and seizure of bank accounts opened days after the Pandora operation after December 16 [predecessor of the Piñata series of raids], in which 11 people were arrested, seven of whom were remanded in custody until 30 January.

As explained in the blog Efecto Pandora, an order signed by Velasco asked the Information Brigade of the National Police to blockade and embargo these solidarity accounts and also investigate bank transactions made since their opening.