“I am convinced that Alba Vergés did what she had to do to protect the Catalans and to protect us all,” said the Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, after a series of WhatsApp messages provided to the judge came to light. by the former Minister of Health, Josep Maria Argimón, from Junts, who intend to incriminate his predecessor in office, from ERC, in the judicial case opened for the delay in the covid vaccination of national police and civil guards of Catalonia.
Elena has thus put her hand in the fire for the innocence of her fellow member, current vice president of the Parliament, in an interview on the Cafè d’Idees program on La 2 and Ràdio 4. “To think that a political leader, with what what happened to this woman, she was discriminating against people based on what they did, it seems unspeakable to me,” added the head of the Interior of the Generalitat, who questioned whether Vergés also protected the agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard. has made it clear: “of course.”
The counselor, who did not want to go into why Argimón delivered these messages to the investigating judge of the case because the matter was judicialized, recalled that in those months “we were talking about people’s lives, about living or dying.” “For the love of God, this councilor passed what is not written,” Elena exclaimed in reference, among other things, to the confinement of Conca d’Òdena, where her city, Igualada, is located, and to the contagion of covid her husband and parents at the deadliest moment of the pandemic.
Likewise, the head of the Interior did not want to speculate on possible political intentions of Argimon by making these messages available to the judge and has called for the former Junts councilor to be asked and has defended the “extraordinary” collaboration of the Mossos with the Police. National and the Civil Guard. “It has always worked,” Elena insisted.
The messages that are available to the judge reveal that a member of Vergès’ cabinet sent an email to Argimon and Carmen Cabezas, then deputy director general of Health Promotion, in which he indicated that the vaccination of the Armed Forces and Corps had to be stopped. State security by order of the counselor. “Once again, the councilor asks to stop the Civil Guard and National Police. We will not be able to argue it, we would have to stop it,” she wrote. And Cabezas responded: “you are in charge.” The Prosecutor’s Office has requested to reopen the judicial case against Vergès and inform the TSJC, given the former councilor’s status as a deputy.
