this offence can be punished with sentences of up to 15 years of prison. the investigating judge stated that the leaders did not call for "peaceful demonstration but to the protection of catalan officials through 'massive citizens' mobilisations" and that jordi sànchez, on top of a vehicle, encouraged the demonstrators with expressions such as "no one goes home, it will be a long and intense night". according to the judge the actions of sànchez and cruixat are within the scope of sedition, a felony regulated by the article 544 and subsequents of the spanish criminal code: