The Public Prosecutor's Office of the National Court has asked Judge Manuel García Castellón to apply amnesty to the altercations against the verdict of the trial under investigation in the Democratic Tsunami case, including the crime of terrorism that the magistrate attributes to the participants and organizers . of those protests.
Prosecutor Miguel Ángel Carballo states that “despite the qualification upheld by the judge,” it is not clear that the events “even hypothetically” deliberately caused serious human rights violations. It refers in particular to the provisions provided for in Articles Two and Three of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which refer to the right to life and not to suffer torture or degrading treatment, and that is one of the exclusions that comes to mind in the amnesty law.
The judge at the National Court who is investigating a large part of this case is convinced that this procedure falls outside the law. Their argument is that these events happened terrorist acts and that two police officers were seriously injured, even though the protests were not organized by the platform.