Spanish police sources instructed Reuters on Sunday {that a} army officer was arrested for possession of a pistol at a protest towards an amnesty legislation that might drop all costs towards the Catalan separatists concerned within the failed 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
Spanish media reported that the person arrested is a second lieutenant stationed on the Zaragoza Army Academy coaching base. A pistol that was not for army use was seized by the police at one of many safety checkpoints at Marqués de Urquijo Avenue, the place all people attending the protest had been searched by the police.
Articles 28 and 29 of the Spanish Citizens’ Security Law present that it’s the authorities’s duty to control the necessities and circumstances of the possession and use of weapons, and the federal government is to use crucial management measures by “[e]stablishing the obligatory possession of licenses, permits or authorizations” for his or her possession and use. Below the Residents’ Safety Legislation, the second lieutenant might face a nice of as much as 30,000 euros if convicted.
Notably, this was the sixteenth day of the ongoing protests towards Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s amnesty take care of Catalan separatists. On Saturday, round 170,000 protesters marched by means of Madrid, constituting the largest protest but towards the amnesty legislation, simply two days after Sánchez won another term as Prime Minister with a 179-seat majority on November 16.
After the inconclusive elections held in July, the place no social gathering had received a majority, Sánchez’s Spanish Socialist Staff’ Get together (PSOE) signed an agreement with the pro-Catalan independence social gathering, Collectively for Catalonia (Junts). As an alternate for the Catalan separatists’ votes for Sánchez on the congress, Sánchez agreed to drop all charges towards the Catalan separatists convicted in relation to the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
The appropriate-wing Spanish Folks’s Get together (PP), which has been main the protests towards the amnesty legislation, referred to as the deal between the federal government and the Catalan separatists “a democratic anomaly,” whereas Sánchez has requested for “sanity and restraint from the PP” and for them to just accept the results of the polls.
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