The Prosecutor’s Office reduces the sentence request for those detained for La Vuelta to 12 and 16 and a half months

The Prosecutor’s Office has requested to reduce the sentences of the four detainees from two to one year for breaking in during the La Vuelta 2025 time trial in Valladolid for public disorder and disruption of a sporting event, and maintains two of the defendants for 4 and a half months for resisting authority.

This was stated during the trial held this Tuesday in the Courts of Valladolid, preceded by a protest, in which the defense has requested free acquittal, by framing the actions of their clients in freedom of expression and by having recognized the facts, although not the crimes.

For its part, the private prosecution, the organization Action and Communication for the Middle East (ACOM) – whose questions the defendants have refused to answer because they consider it an “Israeli lobby” – has adhered to the requests of the Public Ministry.

Risk for cyclists

In fact, it was this recognition that motivated the prosecutor to ask for the sentences to be reduced, something they already did in the previous phases of the process, although he decided not to withdraw the charges when he understood that there was planning to alter public order and that there was a potential risk for cyclists, agents and the defendants themselves.

Regarding the two accused of having resisted authority, the Public Prosecutor’s Office has justified maintaining the 4.5-month sentence for two of them, in the testimony of three police officers who carried out the arrest.

In his final intervention, the private prosecution stressed that the protest was motivated by the participation of an Israeli team (Israel Premier Tech) and insisted that the planning of the event “was one more step” to achieve the suspension of La Vuelta and the expulsion of the Israeli team.

“A peaceful protest against a genocide cannot have greater reprisals than the fact of committing it,” he stated, after acknowledging his confidence that they would be acquitted.