The thick words have returned this Wednesday to the plenary session of Congress on account of the Mediator case and the crossing of accusations between the spokesperson for the Interior of the PP, Ana Belén Vázquez, and the minister of the branch, Fernando Grande Marlaska. The popular deputy has accused the minister of betraying the Civil Guard before Esquerra and Bildu to save the PSOE, alluding to the fact that yesterday in the Board of Spokespersons these two groups opposed the creation of an investigation commission on the plot of Tito Berni in exchange for investigating the Armed Institute in the Interior Commission.
The head of the branch has answered by referring to the same ministry when it was directed by Jorge Fernández Díaz and the PP, when, in his words, computers were broken, evidence of corruption was stolen or the State Security Forces and Bodies were used to blame other political forces for crimes they had not committed. “The thief believes that everyone is of his condition,” added the head of the Interior to point out that since the socialists govern, dignity is being restored to the Civil Guard and the National Police.
But Marlaska has gone further when he has answered the PNV deputy Mikel Legarda who had questioned him about the measures that the ministry is going to adopt “given the alarming news of cases of corruption within the Civil Guard” that have been known to be linked to the Mediator case. Then the minister has revealed that the government “on duty” in 2017, led by Mariano Rajoy, “stopped” an internal investigation in the Civil Guard on the so-called Barracks case of irregularities in the awarding of contracts in barracks of the armed institute.
After showing concern about the cases of irregularities in the Civil Guard, the head of the Interior has asked “not to generalize some specific cases”, which he has described as “very dangerous” and has recalled that the socialist government has “zero tolerance” for the corruption. The minister has assured that the “most interested” in investigating this case are the civil guards themselves and that the internal affairs unit of the Benemérita was investigating this matter in 2017 but that the Executive at that time, chaired by Mariano Rajoy, “seems It may be that the investigation stopped”, after the agents raised it with their superiors in order to bring it to the attention of the judges, understanding that there could be “illicit conduct”.
Marlaska has revealed that the investigations were restarted in June 2018 “when this Government arrived”, because the Cabinet headed by Pedro Sánchez seeks to clarify “all criminal conduct and because the Civil Guard also investigates all criminal conduct”.
“It is indecent that he wants to turn the case of deputy Tito Berni into the Civil Guard case to cover up cocaine and brothels for deputies,” Vázquez snapped at the minister in his turn to reply and asked him if he gave permission to the plot to go to take photos at the address of the Civil Guard or if he gave the order to investigate the deputies of the PSOE who were related to the plot.
From here the debate has risen in tone when Vázquez recalled that “the Socialist deputy Santos Cerdán told Tito Berni that he had to resign, that there were photos.” In line with this, he has questioned the minister how they knew. “Did they hire a fortune teller or are you the fortune teller?” Vázquez ironized to conclude that “you are the snitch with stripes.”
So, the popular spokeswoman has assured that if there is a corrupt civil guard “that pays for it” but has accused the minister of giving in to Bildu and Esquerra “to drag the Civil Guard through the mud to save face for the PSOE, his party “. “A full-fledged betrayal, Mr. Marlaska,” said the popular woman at the top of her lungs.
