The Mossos arrest Hasel and take him away from the University of Lleida

Barcelona, ​​Feb 16 (EFE) .- The Mossos de Esquadra have detained Pablo Hasel at around 8.25 am this Tuesday at the University of Lleida (UdL) rector's office and have led him out of the building, where they have put him in a police car.

Before entering the vehicle of the Mossos, which will foreseeably take him to judicial offices for his subsequent imprisonment, the rapper addressed his supporters and the media who captured the moment and shouted: "Death to the fascist state ".

The Mossos have been able to enter the University of Lleida first thing in the morning to proceed to the arrest of the rapper, sentenced to nine months in prison for exalting terrorism and insults to the Crown, without having produced "serious incidents" and Without evidence of injuries, a spokesman for the Generalitat Police has informed Efe.

A strong police force, made up of dozens of Mossos agents and a score of vans from the Mobile Brigade, has been deployed since 6.30 am on Tuesday in the vicinity of the rectory to proceed to the arrest of Hasel, whose deadline to enter voluntarily in prison ended last Friday.

Hasel locked himself up in the UdL rector's building this Monday "to make it as difficult as possible for the Police" in view of his imminent arrest and with the aim, as he told Efe, of making visible what he considers to be a "very serious attack" against freedoms.

The police, however, have been able to easily circumvent the barricades, made up of tables and chairs, which had been placed at the entrances of the building by the fifty activists locked up with Hasel in the rectory, who have been cornered by the agents to proceed to the arrest of the singer.

When the Mossos entered, the activists took refuge on the third floor of the building while throwing some objects at the agents and emptying them of fire extinguishers. The Mossos spokesman has specified that he has no record of injuries among the agents.

The group of activists, who have surrounded Hasel to try to make his arrest more difficult, have been cornered by the police, who have proceeded to identify them after taking them one by one, until only the rapper remains, the last to be identified and, at that time, stopped.

Inside the building were also numerous journalists and photojournalists who spent the night with the activists and Pablo Hasel himself.

This Monday, the National High Court rejected once again the suspension of the execution of Hasel's nine-month prison sentence, recalling that in 2017 he was convicted of a crime of resistance or disobedience to authority, and in 2018 for raiding a premises .

"With this criminal record, it would be absolutely discriminatory with respect to other criminals, and also a serious individual exception in the application of the Law, totally lacking justification, the suspension of the execution of the sentence to this convict", argues the court.

And he adds that "the campaigns" in his favor "that some people may have orchestrated cannot determine the non-application of the current law, but rather its eventual modification by Parliament."