Lleida’s tribunal didn't try out army officials as the nice majority had already been achieved within the days after the uprising. five The juries within the different towns, against this, basically thought of situations related to officials who had performed very important roles within the army uprising. In Barcelona on 2 September, the jury all started working at the criminal send Uruguay, and it maintained really excessive job till February 1937, with nearly all of its loss of life sentences issued within the final months of 1936. In Tarragona, trials have been held opposed to officials of that urban on 12 September and a pair of November 1936. Six dying sentences have been issued and conducted. In Girona, trials have been hung on 7 and 12 October, and 7 officials have been condemned to demise, even if in basic terms 3 have been achieved. In Figueres, trials have been hung on 28 and 30 September, without loss of life consequences issued. 6 a whole renowned justice method – person who may well take care of civil in addition to army instances – used to be now not demonstrated until eventually a little later. in reality, it used to be now not until eventually the 1st team spirit govt, presided over through Josep Tarradellas, used to be shaped on 26 September that the belief arose for developing well known tribunals to pass judgement on political crimes dedicated through civilians. The formation of renowned tribunals was once obvious as an important degree, one who may placed the brakes at the summer’s over the top repression. The initiative got here from Andreu Nin, the hot minister of justice and legislations within the Generalitat and the POUM’s political secretary. Nin created the preferred three. The decree that created those juries are available in Diari Oficial de l. a. Generalitat de Catalunya, 26 August 1936. four. Diari Oficial de l. a. Generalitat de Catalunya, 28 August 1936. five. For extra at the state of affairs in Lleida, see Barrull i Pelegrí 1995 and Sagués San José 2003. 6. extra at the repression in Tarragona are available in Piqué i Padró 1998. for additional info at the decisions opposed to the 2 garrisons in Girona, see Clara i Resplandis 1990, pp. 141–53. 66 • Chapter Six tribunals by means of decree (the decree of thirteen October) so one can ‘guarantee the integrity of the proletarian conquests [of the revolution] and give a contribution to victory within the war’. they might ‘consider all acts that contributed, without delay or ultimately, to the army uprising or the fascist stream of nineteen July 1936, and impose the ideal sanctions, in contract with public judgment of right and wrong, on these responsible’. 7 The broad provisions of the decree proven not just the categories of crimes the tribunals may listen – particularly these crimes thought of counterrevolutionary – but additionally the judicial method to be from the instant of accusation to the ultimate sentencing, the procedural safeguards on behalf of the accused, and the capabilities of the prosecutor. The decree created 4 renowned tribunals in Barcelona and one every one in Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. ultimately, it validated the composition of every tribunal, the process for the election of tribunal contributors, and the features required of every member. The tribunal will be composed of a president and 8 individuals, one from all of the 8 agencies that shaped the Catalan anti-fascist block.