The former police chief denounces the political, police and media campaign against him for not participating in Operation Catalunya

The former head of the National Police Corps in Catalonia, Narcís Ortega, filed a complaint today with the Prosecutor's Office against the former minister and former general secretary of the PP María Dolores de Cospedal, the former minister Jorge Fernández-Díaz, the former Secretary of State for the Interior Francisco Martínez and former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo as a victim of the political, police and media plot against him for not participating in the so-called 'Operation Catalunya'.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
26 July 2022 Tuesday 12:51
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The former police chief denounces the political, police and media campaign against him for not participating in Operation Catalunya

The former head of the National Police Corps in Catalonia, Narcís Ortega, filed a complaint today with the Prosecutor's Office against the former minister and former general secretary of the PP María Dolores de Cospedal, the former minister Jorge Fernández-Díaz, the former Secretary of State for the Interior Francisco Martínez and former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo as a victim of the political, police and media plot against him for not participating in the so-called 'Operation Catalunya'.

He accuses them of the crimes of criminal organization, prevarication, embezzlement and disclosure of secrets, all of them committed within the framework of the so-called "Operation Catalunya" beyond those that the Prosecutor's Office could determine if it agrees to investigate it.

Ortega explains in his complaint that Fernández Díaz removed him from his position – which he had appointed after his predecessor, Alfredo Pérez-Rubalcaba – and sent to Teruel, a circumstance that he denounced through administrative channels.

As explained in the complaint by his lawyer Jordi Pina, the reason why he was removed from his post was purely ideological. The leader of the Catalan PP Alicia Sánchez Camacho reportedly told Villarejo that Ortega was in contact with people from CiU. In fact, she puts him on a black list of people colluding with the world of independence during the year 2012.

Ortega is now based on a series of audios that are coming to light between Villarejo and former members of the PP such as Cospedal, Sánchez Camacho or Francisco Martínez. In addition, it explains as "part of the criminal plan set up by those accused together with other people who would lend themselves to that dirty game of personal discredit of the complainant", the publication of a news item about him, in February 2013, in the newspaper La Razón. As he explains, Ortega has already denounced to the newspaper that he was sentenced to compensate him.

“The fact that the then Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernández Díaz, dismissed Ortega from his position as superior chief of the Catalan Police was for purely ideological reasons, by unfairly and arbitrarily ordering his transfer to Teruel from one day to the next to end up readmitting him shortly after, but in a position of lower rank than the one that corresponded to him ”, collects the document.

“All this –he continues- within the framework of a campaign of harassment and demolition to put an end to the independence movement and anyone who was related”, he adds.

In his opinion, one of the pieces of evidence is the fact that Sánchez Camacho drew up a black list of pro-independence supporters, among whom was the former superior chief of the CNP, Narciso Ortega, whom they consider "a problem" and a key piece of the ' Operation of Catalonia' for his closeness to the former Minister of the Interior Felip Puig.

Ortega also denounces the fact that various police commanders accepted instructions from political officials without any functional competence over them and "with the purpose of opening prospective investigations regarding people who were not even suspected of having committed any crime. but only for purely ideological reasons.” Among those investigated was himself, in the light of some photographs of him in a cafeteria meeting with the owner of the Method 3 detective office, Francisco Marco.