Santiago "Santi" Vila i Vicente (born 15 March 1973) is a Catalan historian and politician from Granollers, Spain. He was a member of the Catalan European Democratic Party, and was a councillor at Figueres from 1999 before becoming mayor from 2007 to 2012.

On 2 November 2017 members of the Generalitat de Catalunya were arrested for sedition, unlike the others Vila was offered bail of €50,000 as he had resigned before the Catalan unilateral declaration of independence. He was pre-trial jailed just a night. The trial began on 12 February 2019 and was remitted to decision on 12 June 2019.

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On 14 October 2019, Vila was sentenced to a year and 8 months of disqualification and a fine of €60.000 for disobedience.

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See also

2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis

Trial of Catalonia independence leaders

References

1973 births

Catalan prisoners and detainees

Culture ministers of Catalonia

Gay politicians

Spanish gay men

LGBT legislators in Spain

Living people

Mayors of places in Catalonia

Municipal councillors in the province of Girona

People from Granollers

Prisoners and detainees of Spain

People barred from public office

Spanish politicians convicted of crimes

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