The Catalan Prosecutor’s Office undertakes a qualitative leap in the investigation of the so-called Catalunya operation, unifying the investigation into the alleged espionage of the former chief prosecutor of the community Martín Rodríguez Sol with the extensive complaint that Josep Lluís Trapero, former commander of the Mossos d’ Esquadra has recently presented itself for maneuvers to implicate it in drug trafficking operations, orchestrated by former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and other former high-ranking police officials under the cover of illegal actions against the Catalan independence movement. The information about both matters that triggered the investigation and the complaint was published by La Vanguardia and the newspaper Diario.es on January 16 and 17.

The decision opens the door for many of those who consider themselves affected by the dirty war against the independence movement, deployed during the government of Mariano Rajoy (2011-2018) by senior officials of the Ministry of the Interior and police commanders, to try to join and carry their cases to the courts. Something that until now has been impossible in the different courts in which they have attempted it, despite the overwhelming documents, written and audio, and testimonies that this dirty war took place on a very broad scale.

The court that accumulates most of this evidence is number 6 of the National Court, headed by the controversial magistrate Manuel García Castellón, who despite the numerous cases he has open against Villarejo has systematically refused to enter into the operations linked to politics. His argument is that he is only interested in the private businesses that Villarejo carried out while he was a police officer, thus accepting all his police activities for the simple fact that they were not commercial.

Trapero has filed his complaint with the Barcelona Prosecutor’s Office, but those responsible will raise it to the Superior Court of Catalonia, directed by Francisco Bañeres, according to sources informed about the procedure.

In the case of former prosecutor Rodríguez Sol, it was the Superior Prosecutor’s Office of Catalonia itself that announced the opening of an investigation after La Vanguardia and the newspaper Diario.es published a document from the Internal Affairs Unit of the Police in which informed the Ministry of the Interior about a proposal of people to investigate in Catalonia. And the objective of the police charges was to search for “links between the senior prosecutor and the Unió Democràtica de Catalunya (UDC) party and the commissions managed by the lawyers of the aforementioned party.” As is known, in other similar investigations, it was not necessary to find evidence of anything. False dossiers were created and sent to addicted media and even served to open unfounded legal cases.

In the case of Trapero, La Vanguardia and eldiario.es published an informative note sent by Villarejo to the Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, and to the Police Directorate in which he implicated the then head of the Mossos d’Esquadra in a plot of drug trafficking.

In this matter, the police attempted to merge their businesses and private activities with those related to Operation Catalunya. To do this, they sought the complicity of the judge responsible for the investigative court number 1 of Barcelona, ??Joaquín Aguirre – who also directs the controversial investigation known as the Voloh case in which he intends to accuse the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont of high treason for his contacts with Russia. – and that he maintained a tense relationship with the senior police official, so that he could be charged. It was the Macedonia case, which after an endless thirteen-year investigation ended with the file for all the police officers and the informant, prosecuted by Judge Aguirre.

Most of the information notes prepared in those years by Villarejo and the Deputy Operational Directorate of the police were sent to the Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, through his deputy, Francisco Martínez, first as chief of staff and later as secretary. of State of the ministry.