The former mayor of Barcelona and leader of Junts in the council, Xavier Trias, has charged against the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz for the Catalunya operation of which he was a victim and has assured that the conservative politician even threatened the media to to publish the false accounts in Switzerland attributed to him by a report from the so-called patriotic police and published by the newspaper El Mundo in 2014.
“I have seen that people were afraid at times. Jorge Fernández Díaz has been threatening the media to publish all this [the fake Trias accounts]. “They have been putting pressure on people,” Trias assured RAC1 in an interview in El Món following the new revelations about the case offered this Monday by La Vanguardia, which point to the head of the French customs in Toulouse, Jean-Michel Pillon, as the creator of the incriminating report against the former mayor, who has considered that this “is a straw man” with whom the instigators of the Catalunya operation “try to cover themselves from the nonsense they have done.”
Trias has not ruled out taking legal action for the Catalunya operation, but has warned that “it makes no sense to file a complaint if it has to end up archived, because it has already happened to me.” “What I wonder is how the State Attorney General may not act,” he indicated before learning about the proceedings opened by the chief prosecutor of the TSJC, Antonio Bañeras, regarding the attempt by the patriotic police to investigate the former senior prosecutor. Martín Rodríguez Sol.
Trias has also revealed that he spoke with Fernández Díaz “fifteen days ago.” “We met by chance at the cinema. Vino told me: ‘You and I have to talk’. And I told him that what he had to do was ask for forgiveness,” said the post-convergent leader, who has also denounced that with all the “The socialists were passing by (…) I don’t see the PSC saying that all this is a shame,” Trias lamented.
He has also explained that he has felt “used” by Pablo Iglesias. “He was only interested in making me go to the places to explain that the State sewers existed and that he was persecuted,” lamented the former mayor, who said he had nothing against Iglesias, but wanted to make it clear that “what happened to him and what happened to me has nothing to do with it. “It makes me nervous that they use me like this,” Trias snapped.
The son of the former president of the Generalitat Jordi Pujol, Josep Pujol, has also spoken about the Catalunya operation, who in the same program as Trias has considered that “the amnesty is good for everyone”, especially for Rajoy’s executive, whom He believes that it is in his best interest for the measure to be “as broad as possible.”
“The person who would benefit most from the amnesty is the former PP government, if these accusations are corroborated,” said Pujol, for whom the amnesty, which he recalled that he did not ask for, “is good for everyone.” “They (the PP) are interested in the amnesty being as broad as possible,” he insisted.
Regarding the case regarding his family’s fortune that is in the National Court, he has asked for speed because otherwise it is defenseless, as he has denounced. “It would be nice if we had to go to trial quickly, my father is 93 years old, this is pure and simple helplessness, but that’s how that country works,” she lamented.
Likewise, Pujol has wondered how much they have spent on Operation Catalunya. Between 6 and 12 million?, the son of the former president has questioned to sentence: “It is embezzlement of public funds, prevarication, falsification of documents, revelation of secrets, criminal organization…” “Will no one give any explanation?” he exclaimed. Pujol, who sees “many things that have been left up in the air.” “It is a very exhausting war,” added Pujol, who has complained that justice does not act despite the fact that “the crimes are evident.” As evident, he sees that journalists like “Pedro J. Ramírez, Eduardo Inda and Mr. Urreiztieta lie and Mr. Ferreras, in the Sexta, manipulates.” “It is proven. And they continue to have their audience,” he concluded.
