Catalan chief on trial over value of secessionist symbols

The skilled-independence regional president of Catalonia is standing trial for allegedly disobeying Spain’s electoral board by not eradicating skilled-secession symbols from public buildings within the midst of an election campaign.

Quim Torra would be declared unfit to protect public enviornment of job for a time frame if found guilty within the trial that started Monday.

Prosecutors are charging Torra with failing to examine orders from the nation’s electoral board to rob away yellow ribbon symbols from the regional authorities’s headquarters in Barcelona earlier than the April 28 national election. The ribbons are how Catalan separatists insist make stronger for the crawl’s leaders, nine of whom own got penal complex sentences for his or her role in a failed secession expose in 2017.

The board stated the ribbons were “tools of political propaganda” that violated campaign authorized guidelines.