[Spain] Three of the five anarchist prisoners of the Operación Piñata released!

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The Audiencia Nacional (spanish special court) has ordered the release without bail of three of the five people that were still in preventive prison, arrested under the Operación Piñata last 31^th of March. According to what was declared to Diagonal newspaper by one of the lawyers who represents the defendants of Operación Piñata, Daniel Amelang, they are now waiting that the court decides about the freedom of the other two persons that are still in preventive prison.
“The Audiencia Nacional has considered that the preventive prison was disproportionate”, explains Amelang. “For now they keep the accusations against them, but they have seen that is unnecessary that they are now in prison”, he concludes. The three people were released during the 1^st of June afternoon from the different prisons that they were transferred last 18^th of May.

The order for release highlights that the resolution made by the judge Eloy Velasco from the Audiencia Nacional did not provide enough evidences or “enough” specificity of the alleged terrorist activities allegedly committed by the detainees for ordering their preventive prison. The papers also note an appeal from the defense of one of the detainees in which they highlight that the link between GAC (Coordinated Anarchist Groups) and the terrorism was “absolutely unjustified”.

The Operación Piñata was carried out last 31^st of march and meaned the raid of many squatted social centers and houses in Madrid, Palencia, Barcelona and Granada and the arrest of 39 people, 15 of them were accussed of membership of an anarchist terrorist organization and the rest of them were accused of resistance, disobedience and squatting. The operation was ordered by the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Eloy Velasco, who affirms that the detainees are members of an alleged terrorist platform called Coordinated Anarchist Groups (GAC) that would be related with an international group called FAI/FRI. The operation followed a previous one, the Operación Pandora, ordered by the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Javier Gómez Bermúdez and that was carried out in Barcelona last 16^th of December. During that operation 11 people were arrested. 7 of them were sent to preventive prison and they were released last 30^th of January with a bail of 3000€.

The same day that the Audiencia Nacional ordered the release without bail for three of the 5 detainees of Operación Piñata, the jugde Eloy Velasco, the same one who ordered this case, has ordered now the freezing and embargo of the bank account that was opened days after of the Operación Pandora.
According to the blog Efecto Pandora, an order signed by Velasco asks to the Information Brigade of the spanish national police to freez and make an embargo of those bank accounts and, moreover, to investigate the account movements done since it was open.