The former legal head of the Mossos sues the Interior for his dismissal

The person who was responsible for the legal advice service of the Mossos d'Esquadra, Mari Pau Martí, has filed an administrative lawsuit against her dismissal and against the provisional appointment of her replacement.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
10 December 2022 Saturday 21:32
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The former legal head of the Mossos sues the Interior for his dismissal

The person who was responsible for the legal advice service of the Mossos d'Esquadra, Mari Pau Martí, has filed an administrative lawsuit against her dismissal and against the provisional appointment of her replacement. The letter, to which La Vanguardia has had access, describes in about thirty pages what the lawyer understands as an "interested termination" by the team of Minister Joan Ignasi Elena since during the time they coincided, Martí put forward technical criteria that They collided with the department, for example, in the development of the eviction protocol or in the legal defense model that agents must have.

The claim has been accepted and the court has already marked a day in September to hold the hearing. After the dismissal of Josep Lluís Trapero at the head of the Catalan police and the rest of the movements that came later related to trusted commanders of the major, there were many voices that already warned that Mari Pau Martí would be the next to fall. The lawyer coordinated the defense strategy of Trapero and the mayor Teresa Laplana at the time, leading the team that together with the lawyer Olga Tubau and the commissioner Ferran López achieved the acquittal sentence.

Martí was always considered in the Interior and in the police as a person of the absolute confidence of the eldest, but who counted during the eight years that he held the position with the complicity of the police officers who came to her whenever they had some kind of problem.

But Martí had become an "obstacle" for the new guidelines designed by Interior on the new model of legal defense for police officers. A system from which the number two and head of criminal affairs of the Interior, Josep Lluis Florensa, was not long in jumping, to whom the department denied being able to act as a lawyer for the mossos from the Sap-Fepol union, although they had to authorize him after an appeal presented and won by the lawyer.

The lawsuit reconstructs the process for which Martí was dismissed and for which he requests its annulment. Why? Because he assures, in the letter, that Elena had from the first moment the will to dismiss her to be able to sign another person, her current replacement, whose abilities she does not question, but whose career she warns is basically political and not technical in matters law related to the defense of police officers, among other matters.

Thus, Martí explains how she was appointed in February 2014, and that in 2020 an official challenged her position and that of ten other high-ranking officials who, like her, were provisionally occupying positions for a longer time than allowed. The justice admitted the challenges and ordered the convening of the squares. Only in the case of the position held by Martí was a new provisional call made in a contest for which only, the lawsuit claims, was an interview conducted.

His dismissal and the subsequent provisional appointment of another candidate was communicated to Martí after she learned of the results through the media, and she was not given the option to appeal.

This month of December, Interior has finally called the competition for the final position to which, as Martí also warns in his demand, the current head of the legal department may apply, because after six months in office, that time counts as the contest to be chosen again for the place definitively