Pro-independence activist Marcel Vivet, who was sentenced last Wednesday to five years in prison for public disorder, assaulting a police officer and causing minor injuries to Catalan police officer, admits that he did not expect such a harsh sentence and regrets that the Catalan Government did not lower its request when the judicial process began

Five years in prison for public disorder, assaulting a police officer and causing him minor injuries. This is the sentence that a Barcelona Court has imposed on pro-independence activist Marcel Vivet for his participation in the September 2018 demonstration in Barcelona against police union Jusapol. The court considers it proven that the militant of La Forja and Guanyem Badalona committed the crimes which both the Prosecutor's Office and the Generalitat accused him of, since the Government finally decided not to withdraw from the case despite popular pressure. Vivet was a CUP candidate in the last elections to Parliament, and the anti-capitalists had even demanded that the executive withdrew from this and other similar cases as a condition to vote in ERC and JxCat. The final ruling will be emitted within ten days.