Police action, which left some scenes of violence in 2017, is also covered by this amnesty.
As soon as the law is adopted, Carles Puigdemont, whom the Spanish justice system continues to demand, will be able to return to Spain, six years after his flight to Belgium to avoid prosecution.
The separatist leaders who, like Oriol Junqueras, were sentenced to extensive prison sentences and pardoned in 2021 by the Sánchez government, will also see their disqualification sentences, active until now, disappear.
The courts will have, at most, two months to apply this amnesty and the appeals filed will not be suspensive, the bill indicates.
According to an estimate by the promoters of the text, the amnesty could benefit about 400 people in total.
Who is Carles Puigdemont?
Carles Puigdemont was born on December 29, 1962 in Amer, an idyllic mountain and steeple town with 2,200 inhabitants, 100 km north of Barcelona, being the second of eight siblings.
His family still keeps the pastry shop of his parents, Xavier Puigdemont and Nuria Casamajó, in the town, an orphan of the Civil War with roots in Andalusia, in the south of Spain.
Puigdemont is married to a Romanian journalist and is the father of two girls. He plays the guitar, and was part of a rock group in his youth, “fortunately there is no recording left,” joked this politician with the unique hairstyle.
He studied Catalan philology and before devoting himself professionally to politics he was a journalist, editor-in-chief of the Catalan newspaper The Puntdirector of the Catalan News Agency (ACN) and promoter of Catalonia Todaya newspaper about Catalonia in English.