The general secretary of the Catalan PP, Santi Rodríguez, assured this Tuesday that he is not aware that the Catalonia operation, which as La Vanguardia explains today began on September 12, 2012, exists: "It gives me the impression that all this is a fiction to feed a theory of the conspiracy of the State against the independentistas".
The Catalonia operation refers to the existence of an organization made up of members of the Police, the Government of Mariano Rajoy and the PP that, with the help of journalists and the media, hatched a plan against the Catalan independence movement.
"The only conspiracy that has ever existed in Catalonia is that of a pro-independence government against Catalan society itself," he said in an interview with Ràdio 4 and La 2 about the alleged plot to spy on and discredit the Catalan pro-independence movement from police and government authorities.
Rodríguez has detailed that the ex-minister Jorge Fernández Díaz - against whom the ex-minister Jaume Giró sued this Monday for the Catalonia operation - is suspended from militancy because he is immersed in a legal case, as the ex-minister himself requested. Not so the former leader of the PP and senator Alicia Sánchez-Camacho who, as she has recalled, she is not suspended because she "is not involved in any legal proceedings." Giró also denounced her in June before the Prosecutor's Office after publishing some audios in which she asked former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo to investigate him for his links with the independence movement.
Rodríguez has expressed his utmost respect for what the courts decide and has stated that, if the Catalonia operation were proven, "obviously it would be serious, just as everything that has happened in Catalonia all these years has been serious."
