Catalan jailed ministers suffered “unjustifiably vexatious” treatment, says lawyer
Alleged abuse includes ordering them to strip naked, playing the Spanish anthem on a loop, and handcuffing their hands behind their back
The lawyers of imprisoned Catalan ministers are to file a complaint over the “unjustifiably vexatious” treatment their clients suffered as they were preemptively sent to jail by a Spanish judge on Thursday, pending possible charges over the October 27 declaration of independence.
According to attorney Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, the alleged abuses police officers inflicted on his defendants include handcuffing them behind their backs, as well as forcing them to listen to the Spanish anthem in loop on their way to prison without seat belt.
Two ministers were ordered naked “as if they were drug dealers,” Alonso-Cuevillas said in an interview with Catalan public TV on Saturday. According to medical reports, deposed Justice minister Carles Mundó suffered injuries due to the handcuffs.