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 The regional court of southern Andalusia on Thursday convicted
Marinaleda town mayor Juan Manuel Sanchez Gordillo and the others of
serious disobedience for ignoring warnings to leave the "Las
Turquillas" ranch land they occupied during the summer of 2012.
Sanchez Gordillo has staged several activities to highlight the
plight of Spain's near 6 million unemployed, including "Robin
Hood"-style supermarket lootings in 2012 to aid the poor.
His town boasts full employment thanks to its farm cooperatives.
Defendants given sentences of less than two years in Spain are
generally not imprisoned unless they have previous convictions. [Associated
Press]
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