Anna Gabriel i Sabaté

Anna Gabriel i Sabaté (born 1975) is a Spanish social pedagogue, law adjunct professor and politician. She was a member of Catalan Parliament between 2015 and 2017, representing the pro-Catalan independence political party, Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP).[1][2]

Anna Gabriel i Sabaté
Anna Gabriel i Sabaté in February 2016
MP of Parliament of Catalonia
for the Province of Barcelona
In office
26 October 2015 – 28 October 2017
Personal details
Born
Anna Gabriel i Sabaté

1975 (age 44–45)
Sallent, Catalonia, Spain
Political partyPopular Unity Candidacy (CUP)
Alma materAutonomous University of Barcelona
Occupation
  • Teacher
  • politician

Early life

Born in 1975 in a mining and trade union family in Sallent de Llobregat, a working-class town located 70 km north of Barcelona, Gabriel worked as a street educator before studying law and taking up a part-time teaching position at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where she taught history of law. She became involved in political activities at the age of 16, when she joined an anti-fascist platform.[3]

She graduated in social education and then graduated in law and completed a master's degree in social-labor rights at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has been a part-time instructor at the College of Law of the same university and has worked as a technician of the General Direction of Attention to Children of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the town councils of Manresa and Gironella.

After studying social education, she worked in different city councils and organizations as a street educator and participated in the foundation of the Coordinator of Associations for the Catalan Language. She is a member of the General Confederation of Labour and is a member of Endavant. She has been member of CUP since 2002, where she defends feminism as one of the fundamental pillars of education, she commits to equality plans for the municipalities, as well as a shock plan against feminicide.

Political career

She was spokeswoman for the Catalan pro-Independence campaign "Independència per canviar-ho tot" (independence to change everything) and councilor of the City Council of Sallent between the years 2003 and 2011. She presented herself with the CUP to the European Parliament elections in 2004 as number three.[4] During the 2012–2015 legislature in Catalonia, she worked as coordinator of the parliamentary group of the CUP. In the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia of 2015, she was elected deputy for Barcelona. From 2015 to 2017 she was the Parliament's spokesperson of the CUP.[5]

In 2017 she published, with David Fernàndez, the book Al principi de tot hi ha la guerra, based on August Gil Matamala's biography.[6]

After the holding in 2017 of the Catalan independence referendum, called by the Generalitat de Catalunya,[7][8][9] and declared illegal[10][11][12] by the Constitutional Court of Spain, Gabriel was called to appear in front of the Spanish Supreme Court to give evidence about her participation in those events.[1][3] On 20 February 2018, she stated in an interview to Le Temps that she would not show up for her court hearing, while in a self-exile in Switzerland.[13][14]

On March 21st 2018 the magistrate of the Supreme Court Pablo Llarena finally decided to reduce the accusation to disobedience (article 410 of the Spanish Penal Code[15]), an offense that does not entail prison sentences. [16]

According to an investigation by Citizen Lab, her phone phone was hacked using the Pegasus software from the NSO Group.[17]

References
  1. "Separatist from Catalonia seeks Swiss advice". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  2. Burgen, Stephen (2017-12-23). "Catalonia's hopes for peace stall as further wave of arrests feared". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  3. Allemand, Andrés (19 February 2018). "La Catalane Anna Gabriel ouvre un nouveau front diplomatique à Genève". Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  4. "Anna Gabriel Sabaté (Sallent): ?Som una prova pilot, un laboratori: la fórmula CUP s?està inventant?". Cop de CUP (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  5. Liste, Ana González (2015-07-31). "Baños : "La CUP sí pactará para romper con el Estado"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  6. "Portada web Col·legi de l'Advocacia de Barcelona – ICAB". Il·lustre Col·legi de l’Advocacia de Barcelona (ICAB) (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-02-19.
  7. Giles, Ciaran; Parra, Aritz (17 October 2017). "Spain: Top court officially rules Catalan referendum illegal". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  8. "El gobierno de Cataluña convocó para el 1 de octubre el referéndum de autodeterminación". Infobae (in Spanish). 6 September 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  9. Jones, Sam (6 September 2017). "Catalonia to hold independence vote despite anger in Madrid". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 October 2017.
  10. "Why the referendum on Catalan independence is illegal". The Economist. 26 September 2017.
  11. "How to Stage an Illegal Referendum". Bloomberg.com. 20 September 2017.
  12. Alandete, David (10 October 2017). "Independence in Catalonia – now what?". El País.
  13. "Anna Gabriel no anirà a declarar al Suprem perquè considera que no tindria un judici just". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  14. "La séparatiste Anna Gabriel reste en Suisse et fuit la justice espagnole". rts.ch (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  15. "Ley Orgánica 10/1995, de 23 de noviembre, del Código Penal". Boletin Oficial del Estado España. 21 March 2018.
  16. "El juez Pablo Llarena procesa por un delito de rebelión a 13 de los investigados en la causa por el proceso secesionista de Cataluña". Poder Judicial España. 21 March 2018.
  17. Kirchgaessner, Stephanie; Jones, Sam (July 13, 2020). "Phone of top Catalan politician 'targeted by government-grade spyware'". The Guardian. One, Anna Gabriel, is a former regional MP for the far-left, anti-capitalist Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP), who is currently living in Switzerland after fleeing Spain because of her alleged involvement in organising the illegal Catalan referendum. Her lawyer said in a statement that Gabriel received notice last year from Citizen Lab that her phone had been targeted.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.