The Generalitat urges Marlaska to explain the alleged infiltration of police in social entities

The Minister of the Interior of the Generalitat, Joan Ignasi Elena, has sent a letter to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, in which he asks for "urgent responses" about the alleged infiltration of two National Police agents in independence movements, social and trade unions of Barcelona.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
01 February 2023 Wednesday 02:37
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The Generalitat urges Marlaska to explain the alleged infiltration of police in social entities

The Minister of the Interior of the Generalitat, Joan Ignasi Elena, has sent a letter to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, in which he asks for "urgent responses" about the alleged infiltration of two National Police agents in independence movements, social and trade unions of Barcelona.

The letter that Elena has sent to Grande-Marlaska follows the publication of information in the newspaper La Directa stating that a national police officer was infiltrated for two years, between 2020 and 2022, in social and union groups, mainly from the neighborhood of Sant Andreu.

Following this information, the minister has urged Grande-Marlaska in a letter that he has published on his Twitter account to give "urgent answers" about this alleged infiltration of "democratic social and political movements", clarifying who gave the order, with what purpose and if there is a police order. The minister sees it as "urgent" for the minister to give explanations since this infiltration would be "serious and worrying."

Elena, in her letter, also echoes another case of alleged infiltration of a first police officer in the independence movement and in which he defends decent housing, which was also published by the aforementioned media outlet a few months ago.

From the Government "we observe with extreme concern and indignation these police operations with indications of political purposes that seek to persecute and criminalize certain ideologies" when it comes to "democratic and legitimate" social and political organizations, stresses the minister.

For all these reasons, it is "urgent" to clarify who gave the order for the alleged infiltration of these two agents, for what purpose and whether or not there is a judicial order that covers these police actions.

The minister also points out that these alleged infiltrations are added to the alleged case of political espionage of pro-independence leaders with the "Pegasus" computer program. "The persecution of certain political ideas is neither appropriate nor acceptable in an advanced European democracy," the minister concluded his letter.