A law court in Barcelona has shelved the criminal case against 46 police officers for their actions against protesters during the illegal Catalonian referendum in 2017.

The judge applied an amnesty law similar to the one that benefited Catalan politicians behind the illegal declaration of independence. The officers were facing between four and five years’ imprisonment.

“Amnesty must be applied, as the investigated actions were of scarce individual duration within a defined police operation and they did not continue once the police objective was attained,” states the judge’s findings.

According to Judge Francesc Miralles, “None of the actions surpassed the seriousness threshold, that would exclude them [the officers] from an amnesty.”

He goes on to add that the injuries metered out were only “slight.”

(News: Barcelona, Cataluña – Original Source/Photo: Ideal/EFE)