The infinite scroll of 1-O

Of the 10,000 national police officers that the State sent to beat us on October 1st, only four are being tried. The head of this group has declared that, with the number of objects people were throwing at them, it was sufficiently justified to “be able to use anti-riot means,” which “are not harmful, they are deterrent.” And he says this a few meters away from Roger Español, who had an eye emptied by the rubber bullets they fired directly at his body.The accused can lie, of course, especially if they follow the example of their bosses. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Spanish government Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría stated that day: “The object of the actions of the State security forces has never been the people, but the electoral material. They have always sought to protect rights and freedoms.”An interpreter swears before the judge that she will perform the role of interpreter well and faithfully, and then is unable to translate a question from Catalan to Spanish that any of us would have translated without any problem. In the end, the lawyers themselves do the translation until one of them gets tired of it and switches to Spanish. The next day, the press finds out that the interpreter is a graduate in translation and interpreting from UPF, but specialized in Ukrainian and Russian.Memories come of Judge Marchena promising that, if anything, the videos of the police charges would be seen at the end of the trial, "with great pleasure". A veteran lawyer for the political prisoners told them: “You will see that when the trial starts you won't have to go back and forth from prison every day”. The streaming service to follow the trial of the police officers in Barcelona did not work on Thursday afternoon. The question is, therefore, whether the accused will be acquitted or if they will be acquitted and given a medal.