Spain’s top court reduces prison time for Basques in brawl

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Supreme Court has reduced the prison sentences of eight people convicted of beating up two police officers and their girlfriends in a bar brawl.
Prosecutors argued at trial that the defendants targeted the off-duty officers in 2016 as part of a campaign to oust Spanish security forces and secure Basque independence.
The Supreme Court reversed a lower court decision and said in a ruling published Wednesday that anti-police, anti-Spain discrimination hadn’t