On February 27, the trial begins of six demonstrators begins who fought against the placement of Tower 66 of the very high voltage line in Fellines, for whom the Prosecutor’s Office, Red Eléctrica Española and the Catalan Government request between 2 and 8 years in prison. .

The renewed resistance to the MAT in Feb 2018 comes during a general mobilisation in Girona for the Catalan Republic and the release of Political Prisoners. There are demands for the demoilition of the underused MAT line and for the cancelation of rthe upcomong MIDCAT /STEP gas pipeline, a useless EU funded infrastructure due to plough through Girona. see https://www.facebook.com/NoMesGasBCN/

At the same time, it is the network which capitalism needs in order to supply the electricity necessary for other projects and infrastructures of death and destruction, such as high-speed railway lines [TAV]. Those responsible for all this are always the same ones and the construction companies in question are directly involved in other projects which are destroying lands around the world; companies like Vinci standing out in Europe and Endesa in South America.

The very high tension line (‘Muy Alta Tensión’ – M.A.T.) is an electrical motorway which transports at least 400,000 volts. It was constructed in order to connect European States to each other and also Europe with Africa. It is necessary in order to sell and distribute excess energy produced by nuclear power plants and buy and sell excess fossil fuel energy.





544 euros of fine for the 7 anti-MAT activists who were arrested at the eviction of the forest occupations ion Sant Hilari Sacalm

The sentence condemns them for ”coercion and serious disobedience to the authority”, but fortunately exempts them from indemnifying Red Eléctrica with 41,000 euros! Eviction of the anti-MAT camp at Les Guilleries in 2014.

The Criminal Court Number 5 of Girona imposed the fines on each of the seven anti-MAT activists who spent a frigid winter in the trees to avoid the construction of the Very High Tension line. In addition, the ruling also emphasized that the police had eavoid traps (such as ditches dug out of the ground) and climb the trees to clear out the activists.

Part 2: Upcoming Trial of 6 who face up to 8 yrs each for Tower 66 Resistance



Tower 66 was to be erected just 15 meters from a farmhouse in the village of Fellines (municipality of Viladasens, Gironès). Tower 66. Neighbors and activists placed a camper van with a car buried under it with an activist encased in cement inside at the point where the excavation was to be carried out .



Tower 66 became a symbol of resistance. The events took place on the morning of January 8, 2014 – four years ago – when the head of the Mossos (ex Catalan Police) del Gironès police station and those responsible for the Grupo de Arquitectura y Obra Civil SLU company, subcontracted by REE- arrived at the site

To the surprise of the policemen, when they removed the offending camper van they found a car had been buried deep underground , where one of the neighbors resisted with his arm buried in a cement structure. They couldn’t get him out.

When the police tried to rip the car out with a digger it was clear they would kill the occupying activist. At this point physical resistance began.

The resistance was prolonged throughout the day, with the arrival of dozens of solidarity activists and numerous police officers, some of whom were transferred from Barcelona . Riot Police charges and clashes took place. In one of these attacks, the undersigned MCM chief of riot police of Girona- acted brutally and, according to the report presented by the affected, broke his arm when he was trying to protect himself from a blow in his head . That is why this police agent will also sit on the bench of the accused on February 27. On February 27 and 28 and on March 1 and 2, 2018 the Judgment against the person who resisted the police action from the inside of a buried vehicle will be held at the Girona Court along with five other people identified in the demonstrations that took place on the police perimeter.