Isma and Dani are two young students of the Faculty of Physics of Barcelona that, ensuing the general strike of 2012, were arrested while walking down the street. Relying only on information from a newspaper, Judge Carmen Garcia Martinez -famosa now the case 'City Morta'- decided to imprison them until after thirty-four days the Provincial Court of Barcelona in reversed order. However, the two boys nightmare lasted until yesterday. The Government and the City Council, which withdrew the complaint with the arrival of Ada Colau the mayor, asked the nine years in prison. Yesterday were acquitted without charge.
The ruling frees really unusual because probably just saying that police committed errors involuntary identification '. One way that the police arrested without any evidence or any indication concluding that they had participated in any of the incidents of which they were accused. The error was unintentional side Isma and Dani thirty-four days in prison and three years of long anguish.
On the other hand, there is convened tomorrow in a demonstration to protest Rambla del Raval new news about the case called Dixan. It has now been confirmed that operation against a group -teòricament gihadista- had come from the imagination of a police informer who invented a group of people who did nothing criminal.
The result was even more severe than in the previous case: eleven citizens of Pakistani origin had to spend between six and eight years in prison, and most have been expelled after. For not having done anything, because everything which they were accused of was a lie.
In both cases there were organizations and media from the first time we denounce the weakness of the arguments of the police and the inconsistency of cases. But this was no obstacle for these thirteen people they were subjected to an ordeal impossible to accept in a democracy.
In both cases, we should not infer a general condemnation, but are very paradigm of a reality that we all know: the functioning of justice and the police, especially when politically sensitive border issues leaves much to be desired.
When in doubt, prefer confining innocent nonexistent evidence than risking a guilty remain free or that accuse them of being too fussy. And this has been verbalized by ministers and councilors from all political stripes in different eras, it's just a huge risk for the whole population. For all of us. Police and judges accumulate extraordinary power over our lives and this must also ask them extraordinary prudence, before bringing the life of the people by the worst.
