Youth condemned today to 13 years in prison ... for a bar fight by the Spanish Inquisition

Altsasu kids have been condemned to 2-13 years in prison for a bar fight with Spanish military police off duty. 13 years in prison for a bar fight... the problem of Spain is that the State structure remains untouched after 40 years. Eight young people implicated in the punch-up, the hangover has endured for nearly 18 months and their case has become a regional controversy. A special division of the Spanish high court for terrorism (!) in Madrid decidse in a trial starting on April. Prosecutors demandes their "offences" to be charged under terrorism laws,. The decision to transfer the case to the high court was made by Carmen Lamela – the same judge who jailed Catalonia’s democratic leaders for sedition and rebellion last year. One former supreme court judge, José Antonio Martín Pallín, has called the move “radically absurd”.