“I do not rule out any scenario”, warned the first secretary of the PSC and leader of the opposition in Parliament, Salvador Illa, regarding the crisis that has been shaking the Mossos d’Esquadra for weeks and that culminated yesterday with the dismissal of Commissioner Josep Maria Estela as head of the police force. With these words pronounced this Monday on TV3, Illa has opened the door to raise the disapproval of the Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena, in Parliament, a possibility that has also been confirmed by the secretary general of Units per Avançar in La 2, Ramon Maria Swordsman.
The leader of the opposition has described as “very worrying” that so many bosses have passed in the Mossos (five in five years) but “more worrying” -he has said- is that explanations are not given from both the Minister Elena and the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, something that he has also called “unheard of”.
Illa recalled that they have already presented a motion for Elena to go to the Parlamet to give explanations. In her opinion, the fact that up to now no explanations have been given by either the minister or Aragonès for “very serious events” is a “lack of respect for citizens”.
More forceful has been Espadaler, integrated into the socialist group, who has denounced the politicization of the Mossos and has described as a “gross lie” the “excuse” of feminizing the body to dismiss Estela in a “quite immoral” way, since, to his understanding, “his dismissal was announced long before.” “They expected her to resign and she has had the dignity not to resign,” he said.
Espadaler wanted to differentiate between giving political orientation and politicizing the body. “It is evident that the minister must give political orientation, which is to bet on proximity, on the feminization of the body, on a policy that preserves the most vulnerable, but to politicize is to change 36 commands overnight or it is to remove commands that They have been uncomfortable”, denounced the former Minister of the Interior at the time of Artur Mas.
The former Minister of the Interior has described what happened in the Mossos as “an accumulation of nonsense” and has denounced that the body was already a “bartering currency” between the ERC and the CUP in the Aragonès investiture agreement and that the “disorder that exists in the Govern has transferred the Govern to the dome of the Mossos”. “There is no right to how they are treating the police force, respect for the Mossos has been lost,” he snapped.
