The judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón, who is investigating the Democratic Tsunami case, has asked the Police to investigate whether “Russian spies experts in sabotage and murders” traveled to Barcelona between 2014 and 2019.
In a ruling to which La Vanguardia had access this Tuesday, the magistrate agreed to grant the request to open this line of investigation made by two police officers injured in the blockade of the El Prat airport in the protests organized in October 2019 by Democratic Tsunami in response to the procés ruling.
García-Castellón requests the general information commissioner of the National Police “to report on the parties interested” by these agents, who asked to know if Russian spies had traveled to Barcelona between 2014 and 2019, as several media outlets pointed out.
The two police officers, who are represented by the Fuster-Fabra office, included in their request to the magistrate the journalistic information about the presence in Barcelona of at least seven agents of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU), the department of Russian intelligence, from 2014 to 2019, years in which the 1-O referendum and the unilateral declaration of independence took place that led to the judicial offensive against those responsible for the process in Catalonia.
“Not having found in the present procedure any police report about the investigation carried out regarding the alleged covert operations of the members of Unit 29155 of the Moscow military intelligence service (GRU)”, this accusation asked to claim these data from police.
Manuel García-Castellón is at the forefront of the Democratic Tsunami case in relation to all those investigated -including the leader of ERC Marta Rovira-, except the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and the autonomous deputy Ruben Wagensberg, against whom the Supreme Court agreed to open a cause last week
The alleged collaboration of Russia with those responsible for the process is already being investigated by the head of the Investigative Court 1 of Barcelona, ??Joaquín Aguirre, in the so-called Voloh case.
In one of his last orders, by which he extended the investigation of this case, Aguirre stated that the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and members of his entourage maintained “close personal relations” with far-right German and Italian politicians and with Russia, willing to support “economically and militarily” the independence of Catalonia.
