Young members of ‘Fraguas Revive’ have gathered this Tuesday before the doors of the Guadalajara courts for several hours, as a show of support for one of them, who is being tried this Tuesday for a crime of usurpation of real estate, and to who have asked for his acquittal.
This trial is the result of the investigation opened in June of last year against eight people for a crime against the planning of the territory and that concluded with the prosecution of only one of these people. ‘Fraguas Revive’ hopes that she will also be acquitted, among other things because she has not lived there for more than two years, Lalo Aracil, one of the residents, told Europa Press.
Representing ‘Fraguas Revive’, Lalo, one of those convicted in the first trial opened by the occupation, recalled that, parallel to the trial this Tuesday, two other legal proceedings have been opened, one of them, in which both he like five other people were sentenced without the sentence has yet been carried out.
In fact, in this case they are waiting for the Government of Castilla-La Mancha to reverse the civil liability they are asking for, an amount that already amounts to 110,000 euros for demolishing the building in Fraguas, an amount that Lalo has specified , far exceeds the initially requested and have already appealed.
In any case, he has recalled that if they do not satisfy this amount that is demanded of them, the six people who were convicted by criminal means will go to jail.
From ‘Fraguas Revive’ they not only want the demolition to be reversed, but also to waive civil liability to avoid putting six people in jail who, in their opinion, “the only thing they have done is rebuild a town that had been destroyed.”
The regional coordinator of Podemos Castilla-La Manca, José Luis García Gascón, was also at the rally, describing the policies of the Government of Castilla-La Mancha as contradictory, which, on the one hand, claims to fight against depopulation while, on the other, , “attacks social repopulation initiatives” and supports others such as macro-farms.
Gascón has also asked the Government of Emiliano García-Page to cease the “judicial harassment” against the young people of Fraguas and the promotion in the regional courts of a “real” plan that fights against depopulation and supports the rural environment and initiatives sustainable economics.
