The Major of the Mossos d’Esquadra, Josep Lluís Trapero, will act in accordance with what he considers an “obligation” and a “right”, and will denounce before the justice the facts described yesterday Wednesday by La Vanguardia and elDiario.es, a plot orchestrated in the Ministry of the Interior under the baton of former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz to try to implicate the head of the Mossos until 2017 in a case of drug trafficking.
In a statement issued yesterday, Trapero assures that he will take to the courts what he considers an “unjust persecution” against him, for a case that went to trial, although it came to nothing due to the acquittal of the accused after a decade of instruction – including that of Trapero himself–, and that it was nothing more than one of the setups that formed part of the so-called operation Catalonia against the process.
The purpose of the assembly, revealed through one of the informational notes that former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo delivered to Interior, was for the head of the court of inquiry number 1 in Barcelona, ??Joaquín Aguirre, to charge Trapero in what is known as in the Macedonia case, in which he tried to accuse several Mossos agents for their alleged involvement in the use of money from drug trafficking, but with Traperosempre as the main target for “participating in meetings” to “strengthen the plasobyranist”.
The major has decided to denounce before the court “an unjust persecution of me” by “individuals who had no legal authority to do so”, which “only had the objective of discrediting and neutralizing me” , with the aggravating factor of having been “paid with reserved funds”, as he criticizes.
The former head of the Catalan police considers the “persecution” of which he would have been the object of “other officials and public positions” to be “outrageous, frustrating and disappointing”. This circumstance leads him to reflect: “If they did this to a high-ranking police chief, what must they not have done to anonymous citizens throughout their professional careers”, questions the major. That is why he observes “with sadness and concern” the level of “institutional degradation and public management” that is reached when “the search and defense of the general interest is replaced by perverse and personal interests”.
Faced with Trapero’s determination, who for the moment does not plan to go to court is ex-president Artur Mas, on whom the published information also reveals prospective police investigations at the height of the process. The former president indicated yesterday to RAC1 that he has the “hope” that this time the investigation commission that will have to be set up in the Congress of Deputies will get “to the end” with the Catalonia operation, and that it will be cited because appear who must be cited, in clear reference to ex-president Mariano Rajoy, and do not give up witnesses he considers important.
Mas says that he has considered taking legal action several times, but for the moment he has chosen not to do so after seeing the course that the demands presented by other people affected by the plot, such as Sandro Rosell, have taken so far.
Mas trusts in the political path of this matter through the parliamentary commission, with the citation of former senior leaders of the PP such as Rajoy. In fact, the central has already opened the door to support a request for the former popular president to appear to give explanations about the case, in line with a demand also made by Junts per Catalunya and shared by the Government of the Generalitat.
The Minister of the Presidency and of Justice, Félix Bolaños, highlighted yesterday that until 2018, when Pedro Sánchez arrived in Moncloa after winning a motion of censure against Rajoy based, precisely, on the corruption cases that they had splashed, “the PP was a party that used public resources against political rivals”. “He used the forces and security forces of the State to fabricate false evidence”, he denounced. And he did it, in his opinion, “to try to get some political income and try to slow down the pro-independence process”. Since this did not work, “now that they are in opposition, they want to outlaw pro-independence political parties”, he criticized.
The leadership of the PSOE insists at the same time on “getting to the end to investigate the possible crimes committed by the PP government”. And not only through the congressional investigation commission, but by claiming “immediate judicial actions” before the alleged commission of crimes that the journalistic investigation is revealing.
Neither the Executive nor the PSOE currently plan to take the initiative or appeal to the Prosecutor’s Office. But Ferraz is struck by the fact that none of the alleged irregularities described have been prosecuted so far, when they believe that there is enough material for justice to act or for a court to open proceedings.
“The so-called operation Catalonia is the Watergate of the government of the PP and Mariano Rajoy”, emphasize the PSOE. But they also extend the responsibility to Alberto Núñez Feijóo: “Are there people in the PP linked to Operation Catalunya? Will Feijóo collaborate in these investigations? Do you know anything that can help you know the whole truth? It’s time to talk”, affirm the socialists.
