The Prosecutor's Office of the National Court is seeking to prosecute thirteen members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR), nine of whom were arrested in 2019 accused of belonging to a terrorist organisation. Nine are also accused of possessing and manufacturing explosives, El Confidencial reported and ARA has confirmed. The Prosecutor's Office considers there is sufficient proof that the accused were part of a "stable parallel clandestine terrorist organisation, whose objective was to carry out violent actions or attacks against previously selected targets, using explosives and incendiary substances manufactured in the two clandestine laboratories the organisation had installed in two private homes" in response to the sentencing of politicians over the 2017 referendum.