The president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has supported this Tuesday, during his visit to Barcelona, ??to the Mobile World Congress 2023, that the Catalonia operation be investigated in the courts. “Let what needs to be investigated be investigated and what needs to be clarified be clarified,” the popular leader told the media in relation to the information advanced today by La Vangaurdia and Crónicalibre.com.
“I believe that the parties have to be very coherent and, in the same way that I criticize the performance of the PSOE, on the part of our party that it has to come out, that what has to be investigated be investigated and that it be clarified what has to be clarified”, highlighted the president of the PP, accompanied by the candidate of his formation in the Catalan capital in the next municipal elections, Daniel Sirera.
For the first time the courts, specifically the Court of Instruction number 13 of Madrid, will investigate the Catalonia operation and, after a complaint by the former president of Barça Sandro Rosell, has accused the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, visible face of the so-called sewers of the State; Chief Inspector Alberto Estévez, alleged author of a good number of the famous false reports from the Economic and Fiscal Crime Unit (UDEF) of the National Police Force; Antonio Giménez Raso, former inspector and partner of Villarejo in Barcelona; and the American Marc L. Varri, former FBI agent.
For its part, the Government has held this Tuesday to investigate these events in court, even if it is ten years later. However, in the Generalitat they are skeptical about the result that the investigation can produce.
“We are talking about events that took place almost ten years ago or more than ten years ago, and there is little or limited confidence in reaching the end, but we believe that it is good news if someone considers that they have to be investigated,” he stated. the spokesperson for the Catalan Executive, Patrícia Plaja, at the press conference after the Conell Executiu meeting.
On this matter, the spokesman for the Republican Left in the Congress of Deputies, Gabriel Rufián, has spoken in Madrid, regretting that the commission of investigation into the Catalonia operation has not yet been set up in the Lower House, approved last month of September with the favorable vote of PSOE, Unidas Podemos, ERC, Junts, PDECat, EH Bildu, BNG and the CUP.
In his turn, Ferran Bel, PDECat spokesman in Congress, has warned that it would be “an error” not to set up the investigation commission on the Catalonia operation before the end of the legislature, at the end of this year.
In turn, the spokesperson for JxCat in the Lower House, Míriam Nogueras, in a statement, has also demanded that this commission be activated imminently. “Transparency on the part of Congress must be guaranteed,” says Nogueras, who has demanded that PSOE and Unidas Podemos “open doors and windows and raise the carpets once and for all.”
In Parliament, the leader of the commons, Jéssica Albiach, has also stressed that this is “good news”. “It is urgent to clean up,” said the deputy, who believes that the Catalonia operation is “a demonstration of the State’s sewers, no matter how much some refuse to acknowledge that they are there.” In relation to the paralyzed commission in Congress, Albiach believes that “it is important that there be conclusions and that they have an effect.”
In this regard, referring to the information revealed by El País about the tricks of the Interior at the time of the popular minister Jorge Fernández Díaz to slander the independence movement and United We Can, the spokesman for the purple confluence, Pablo Echenique, has pointed out that “the parapolice plot” in the Ministry of the Interior during the stage of the PP whose objective was the “defamation” of Podemos -also of the independence movement-, with accusations and attacks without evidence.
After the revelation of the WhatsApp messages of those involved in the Kitchen case, of the number two of the Interior at that time, Francisco Martínez, with police officers, Echenique has denounced that this case was an attempt to “spurious and illegal alteration” of the rules of the democratic game of “extraordinary gravity”.
From the CUP, its spokesperson in the Catalan Chamber, Eulàlia Reguant, has assured that in its formation they celebrate all the processes that “try to shed light” in relation to the Catalonia operation, but has warned that “it is necessary” that there be “purification of responsibilities and go much further”. “Let no one believe that this is enough,” she asserted.
On the other hand, the Government has announced this Tuesday that it has forwarded to the General Prosecutor of Catalonia the information from the Forbidden Stories journalistic consortium that was published a few days ago about the cyberattack suffered by the Generalitat in November 2014 on the occasion of the consultation of 9-N, a computer attack that affected various services of the Catalan administration. At first, the Executive of Pere Aragonès had assured that they would study what legal actions they could take when it emerged that the Israeli businessman and contractor Tal Hanan was behind the action.
“From the Government, through a letter from the Minister of the Presidency, Laura Vilagrà, they are urged to investigate and determine the criminal responsibilities of the author, with name and surname, or of the authors of these facts”, Plaja pointed out , which has also remarked that after clarifying the criminal responsibilities, “civil responsibilities” will have to be assumed.
