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The rest will enter the penitentiary of their choice in the next few days
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Another was already serving in a Madrid social insertion center
Iñigo Pérez de Herrasti has become the first of those convicted of the assault on the Blanquerna cultural center, which took place in Madrid, on September 11, 2013, who enters prison, as reported by Penitentiary Institutions, for which he has chosen a penitentiary center of the Community of Madrid. The rest of those summoned by the Provincial Court of Madrid in mid-November to serve the sentence imposed once it had become final and there is no possibility that the Constitutional Court would move it again, by rejecting their appeals for protection, they will do so. in the coming days.
The execution of the sentence is taking place simultaneously with the request for clemency that eight of the convicted persons have raised, a measure of grace to which the Supreme Court has informed in an unfavorable way, although the last word is the Council of Ministers to proposal of the Ministry of Justice. Of the 14 convicted of the assault, one is in search and capture and another was already serving his sentence at the Victoria Kent social insertion center in Madrid.
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It is the Supreme Court who informs the Ministry of Justice about the petition for pardon, because it was the one who imposed the last sentence: sentences of between 2 years and 7 months and 2 years and 9 months in prison for a crime of public disorder in ideal competition with a crime against the right of assembly. That resolution complied with that of the Constitutional Court that in January 2020 gave the reason in part to several of those convicted against their first ruling, and forced the Supreme Court to withdraw the aggravating factor of ideological discrimination and the aggravated subtype of the crime of damage to public property , with which the sentence originally imposed by the Madrid Court was raised to four years in prison, consisting of sentences of between 6 and 8 months in prison for a crime of disorder, with the mitigation of repairing the damage.
The final sentence was 2 years and 7 months in prison for 12 of the accused. The other two were sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison. Juan Luis López García (for having had a leading role in the events), and 2 years and 8 months, Jesús Fernando Fernández Gil, for being the one who led the illegal action.
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