Category: Unnecessary Developments

 

Call of the move­ment Mugi­tu! to pub­lish press releas­es, notes or let­ters of sol­i­dar­i­ty with the oppo­nents to the HSL pros­e­cut­ed for pieing the Navar­rese pres­i­dent Yolan­da Barci­na:

 

From the move­ment of dis­obe­di­ence to the HSL of Euskal Her­ria  Mugi­tu! we call all the groups and peo­ple defend­ing the civ­il dis­obe­di­ence as a way of strug­gle to express your sol­i­dar­i­ty and sup­port of the three oppo­nents to the HSL pros­e­cut­ed in the Span­ish Spe­cial Court “Audi­en­cia Nacional” as a result of the action of pie throw­ing against the HSL car­ried out on the Navar­rese pres­i­dent Yolan­da Barci­na last 27 of Octo­ber in Toulouse. The action of pieing, which in any place of the west­ern world is mere­ly a humor­ous action of protest that has very few legal con­se­quences, is in our case, how­ev­er,  object of a polit­i­cal and media crim­i­nal­iza­tion that bor­ders on ridicule: so much so that the three authors of the protest may be sen­tenced to jail sen­tences as they have been pros­e­cut­ed under the accu­sa­tion of “attack” against the author­i­ty in the Spe­cial Court “Audi­en­cia Nacional” of Madrid, the excep­tion­al court which most­ly deals with crimes described as “ter­ror­ism” and before which they will have to make a state­ment on 16 of Novem­ber.

 

For this rea­son, we want to call you all to express your sol­i­dar­i­ty with the defen­dants pub­lish­ing a press release, a brief note in the media or a let­ter of sup­port in terms of denun­ci­a­tion of the manip­u­la­tion and polit­i­cal crim­i­nal­i­sa­tion, rejec­tion of the HSL and sup­port to dis­obe­di­ence; that is to say, denounc­ing the clear manip­u­la­tive and crim­i­nal­is­ing spir­it of the process dri­ven by the Gov­ern­ment of Navarre and defend­ing civ­il dis­obe­di­ence as a way of fight­ing the impo­si­tion of great infra­struc­tures that bring about seri­ous eco­log­i­cal, eco­nom­ic and social impacts, as it is the case of the HSL in our coun­try.

 

The call is framed with­in the ini­tia­tives of sup­port and sol­i­dar­i­ty with the defen­dants which have been decid­ed in an assem­bly of last Sun­day 6 of Novem­ber in Pam­plona under the mot­to “I would do also it!  HSL STOP: Dis­obe­di­ence”.

 

Look­ing for­ward to your sol­i­dar­i­ty, we also want to invite you to spread this call around you and to send any man­i­fes­ta­tion of sup­port that is made pub­lic to the fol­low­ing address. Thank you very much…

                                     

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Account of what hap­pened between the anti-HSL pieing in Toulouse and the trans­fer of the case to the Span­ish Spe­cial Court “Audi­en­cia Nacional”:

 

The move­ment Mugi­tu! of dis­obe­di­ence to the HSL –in fight against the impo­si­tion of the “Basque Y” and the “Navar­rese cor­ri­dor of High speed”–, sup­port­ed by the Occ­i­tan move­ment Lib­er­tat, made a protest action on 27 of Octo­ber inter­rupt­ing the 29th Ple­nary Coun­cil of the CTP (Com­mu­ni­ty of Work of the Pyre­nees) that was being held in the Occ­i­tan city of Toulouse and throw­ing three meringue pies in the face of the pres­i­dent of the Foral Com­mu­ni­ty of Navarre Yolan­da Barci­na, with the aim of denounc­ing the impo­si­tion of the HSL in our coun­try. Indeed, the Basque Gov­ern­ment and the Navar­rese are deter­mined to impose these dis­put­ed projects at a time when the con­struc­tion of new lines of High speed is ques­tioned in many coun­tries because of its ruinous and destruc­tive char­ac­ter. At the same time of the pieing, we demon­stra­tors explained the rea­sons of the action in the meet­ing room, showed posters and shout­ed slo­gans against the HSL as we threw leaflets demand­ing the imme­di­ate paraly­sa­tion of the “Basque Y” works and the aban­don­ment of the project of the Navar­rese cor­ri­dor of the HST, infra­struc­tures of high eco­log­i­cal, eco­nom­ic and social impact in our coun­try and char­ac­ter­ized by an absolute lack of infor­ma­tion and social debate, refus­ing the par­tic­i­pa­tion of the pop­u­la­tion in the deci­sion mak­ing. “In any case — we said–, the solu­tions must be found in a deep trans­for­ma­tion of the present soci­ety, because the cri­sis is becom­ing worse and it is evi­dent that we must not only reduce and dis­trib­ute the “pie”, but also and main­ly change its recipe”.

 

In Toulouse , the action of the pieing was made with­out any oth­er inci­dents, tak­ing place like any­where else in the world as a humor­ous action of protest that  has very few legal con­se­quences. There was no inter­ven­tion from the police or  from the agents in charge of the secu­ri­ty of the meet­ing, so nobody was arrest­ed and after the action, the activists even gave a small press con­fer­ence in the out­side of the build­ing explain­ing the rea­sons for the protest. Nev­er­the­less, in the Span­ish state, the Gov­ern­ment of Navarre imme­di­ate­ly made a pub­lic dec­la­ra­tion of “con­dem­na­tion”, con­ceived with clear aims of polit­i­cal­ly manip­u­lat­ing and crim­i­nal­is­ing the anti-HSL pie throws, final­ly sus­pend­ing the activ­i­ty of the foral par­lia­ment and boast­ing about being a vic­tim, which bor­dered on ridicule, where­as in the street the action was received with an enor­mous delight in ample sec­tors of the pop­u­la­tion.

 

In view of the infor­ma­tive poi­son­ing start­ed by the Gov­ern­ment of Navarre, those of us who took part in the action quick­ly decid­ed to call a press con­fer­ence for the fol­low­ing day in Pam­plona, with the pur­pose of giv­ing all the details about the protest and in order to deny the sup­posed “vio­lent” char­ac­ter of the pie throws, mak­ing clear that this form of action does not mean to cause phys­i­cal harm to the cho­sen per­son, but to dam­age the image of the author­i­ty that he /she rep­re­sents. But as soon as we arrived in Pam­plona in the after­noon of the 28th, the Foral Police arrest­ed the three activists of the group in the street, when they were going to the press con­fer­ence. The police said that they were accused of “Attack to the author­i­ty” and trans­ferred them to police sta­tion. When we con­tact­ed sev­er­al lawyers, these showed their sur­prise about the cir­cum­stances in which the arrests were made, as there were appar­ent­ly no judi­cial dili­gences in the coun­try where the protest had tak­en place. Con­cern­ing the arrests, it must be said that the last per­son who was set free had spent 22 hours in jail and denounced the treat­ment received since he had been pre­vent­ed from sleep­ing dur­ing the night. The arrest­ed were forced to give DNA sam­ples as an indis­pens­able con­di­tion to be released, although nei­ther is it   oblig­a­tory nor did it have any jus­ti­fi­ca­tion in this case since the action had been pub­lic and the arrest­ed peo­ple were going to give a press con­fer­ence, also pub­lic.

 

Final­ly, our com­pan­ions were set free by the Foral  Police that charged them for a crime of “attack to the author­i­ty”, in addi­tion  trans­fer­ring the case to the Span­ish Spe­cial Court “Audi­en­cia Nacional”. In oth­er words,  the Navar­rese pres­i­dent Yolan­da Barci­na, who con­sid­ered, in her first dec­la­ra­tions, the action of the anti-HSL pieing to be “a very sweet begin­ning” for her pres­i­den­cy at the front of the CTP, has not accept­ed the “sweet­ness” of our protest very well. It is so much so that with the accu­sa­tion made, these three peo­ple may be sen­tenced to jail by an excep­tion­al court, before which they have been called to make a state­ment next 16 of Novem­ber