The president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has demanded that the Government declassify CNI documents so that “the whole truth can be known” about the spying via mobile phone with Pegasus that he suffered in 2020 when he was vice president and for what he presented a complaint that this Wednesday was ratified before the investigating judge number 29 of Barcelona as a witness.

In his statement, as he himself explained upon leaving the court, he has ratified himself in the complaint with the objective that “the whole truth be known” and so that no Catalan citizen is spied on again “because of his ideology.” nor is any high official due to his political activity.

“It is an ethical and moral obligation of the Spanish Government,” warned the president, questioned whether the Executive should declassify documents so that the former director of the CNI Paz Esteban, at the time dismissed for this case, can provide information when she testifies in January before the same judge Santiago García. Esteban was also supposed to testify today but the appointment was postponed after the State Attorney’s Office appealed.

Precisely on Monday, the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, stated that the Government is studying declassifying some documents related to the case before Paz Esteban declares.

The former director of the CNI is obliged to comply with the Official Secrets law, which affects everything that is within her knowledge due to the position she held, until she was dismissed. In principle, she could not provide the judge with any details of the case that were protected. However, if the Government declassifies information on the matter, as Judge García has requested, Esteban could answer the instructor’s questions that cover the declassified documents.

The president of the Generalitat arrived at the City of Justice accompanied by his lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde and his chief of staff, Helena Ricomà, and as a witness he answered all the questions posed to him.

“We will go to the end, so that no more citizens of Catalonia are spied on because of their political ideology; that never again will any member of the Government of Catalonia, any minister, any vice-president, any president of the country, be spied on due to their institutional activity.” “They have spied on us as citizens, but they have also spied on the Government of the country,” Aragonès stressed upon leaving the court, where he presented to the judge details of the espionage that he reflected in the complaint he presented in July 2022, and in which considered that the former director of the CNI and NSO Group, the company that created the spy software, may have committed alleged crimes of unauthorized intrusion into computer equipment, illegal interception of communications, computer espionage and “other crimes against fundamental rights.”

When asked by journalists, the president highlighted that “it is a moral obligation of all the public authorities that are concerned to lift the secrecy” of the investigation, because “we are talking about very serious events.” “It is essential that this information be declassified, that it be known who ordered it, what data they have, who has it and what it was used for,” he concluded, and warned that “it is an ethical and moral obligation of the Spanish Government.” .