Former Catalan deputy Mireia Boya (CUP) has today returned to the Supreme Court to be notified of her prosecution for the charge of disobedience. In her appearance before Pablo Llarena, she questioned the judge's handling of the investigation, his impartiality and what she sees as different standards when it came to deciding the charges.
Boya is charged with disobedience whilst a majority of the Catalan government (currently in prison or exile), pro-independence leaders, former Parliament speaker Carme Forcadell and former ERC deputy Marta Rovira are charged with rebellion.
The former CUP deputy criticised the impartiality of the case: "the rulings have evidence of bias", and said that she doesn't recognise the charge of disobedience.
Boya compared her case with Carme Forcadell, currently being held in pretrial detention in Alcalá Meco prison near Madrid. For the former deputy it doesn't make sense for her, as someone who submitted parliamentary initiatives, to be prosecuted for disobedience, whilst the Parliament's speaker, who allowed public debate, should be charged with rebellion.
At this point Llarena intervened with a somewhat sarcastic tone, saying: "if you want, I'll change it to rebellion". Boya said there shouldn't be charges of either rebellion or disobedience, that there is no case.