MEP Clara Ponsatí has taken the Generalitat of Catalonia to court for "keeping secret" the reports of the Mossos d'Esquadra which, in her opinion, have served to "repress pro-independence protesters". "We open the judicial route to stop the repression of the Generalitat against the independentistas and to prevent that the body of the Mossos d'Esquadra can continue acting as a necessary cooperator of Spain," the ex-minister declared through a statement.
Ponsatí submitted a battery of requests for access to public information to the Department of the Interior in 2022. The response, according to Ponsatí, showed that the Generalitat "is lying when it says it does not have this information." The Guarantee Commission of the Rights of Access to Public Information (GAIP) rejected the request regarding access to the reports but recognized Ponsatí's right to know how many of the criminal proceedings have been initiated as a result of the 455 police reports of the Mossos d'Esquadra for the independence protests, in which the Generalitat had appeared as a private prosecution. The Department of the Interior admitted that these reach up to 30.
"The Generalitat should be protecting the Catalans and instead, it is first repressing them with the police and then criminally accusing them, taking advantage of the arbitrariness of the reports, someone must stop them," denounces the former minister.
Clara Ponsatí has filed an appeal against the resolution of the GAIP in the TSJC where she argues, among other things, that the resolution was issued in a "highly irregular" manner and that the reports of the Mossos d'Esquadra are public information.
Ponsatí recalls that one of the key points of the appeal is the reinforced right of access to public information that she holds as an MEP, as well as the possibility of oversight of the police forces by citizens and by elected representatives in a rule of law.
"The repression of the independence movement is carried out by all the powers of the State as a gear," says the MEP, lamenting that "the Generalitat and the Mossos d'Esquadra have become necessary collaborators in this repression" whose objective, In his opinion, it would be "pacifying the population" and "allowing the Government to return to a more submissive and collaborative autonomism."
