The Major of the Mossos d’Esquadra, Josep Lluís Trapero, will bring to justice those responsible for the plot orchestrated in the Ministry of the Interior, in the so-called Operation Catalunya, to try to implicate him in a case of drug trafficking.
The head of the police force between 2013 and 2017 has reacted to the information published this Wednesday in La Vanguardia, in which his name appears in some of the informative notes prepared by Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo in 2013 so that he could be charged in the Macedonian case. “My obligation as a public official and my right is to report to justice an unjust persecution of me by individuals who do not have any legal authorization to do so, aggravated by being paid with reserved funds that were only intended to discredit and neutralize me,” he said. to that diary.
The Macedonia case was one of the setups of Jorge Fernández Díaz’s ministry. It was intended to accuse Mossos agents of alleged involvement in the use of money from drug trafficking to pay informants and for their own benefit, a case that in 2022 ended with the acquittal of all those involved. At the beginning, Judge Aguirre took the Mossos sub-inspector, Josep Ranea, to provisional prison, also suspending his employment and salary for a year and a half.
“All these inventions and falsehoods found an uncritical and collaborative reflection in certain media outlets that disseminated them in a spurious manner. It also had serious and once again unfair judicial consequences for people under my orders.”
Trapero calls it “outrageous”, “frustrating” and “disappointing” to see that other officials and public officials were persecuting him. “If they did this with a senior police officer, what have they not done throughout their professional careers with anonymous citizens,” he asks.
The major perceives “an institutional degradation and public management, where, often, what should be the search and defense of the general interest is replaced by perverse and personal interests and where decency has abandoned the style book of some of its managers,” he concludes.
