The government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, has shown the Executive's "absolute willingness to collaborate" with justice in relation to the so-called Operation Catalonia, stressing the "seriousness" of the "use of State means and security forces and bodies for partisan purposes."
The Minister of Territorial Policy and spokesperson of the Government attended the media this Wednesday before holding a meeting with the executive vice president of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona and mayor of Cornellà de Llobregat, Antonio Balmón, and the representative of the Government in Catalonia, Maria Eugènia Gay, at the headquarters of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona (AMB).
A press conference in which she has been asked about the decision of a Madrid judge to admit for processing, as La Vanguardia advanced, a complaint filed by the former president of FC Barcelona Sandro Rosell against the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and others for having built a lawsuit against him based on "mendacious" accusations to harm him for being considered close to the Catalan independence movement.
The complaint is based on the alleged existence since 2012 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, what has been called Operation Catalonia.
The minister, who minutes before had criticized the PP and former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz for the "use of the public administration to cover up corruption", has indicated that "these are acts of absolute seriousness".
"It is very serious that the public administrations and official offices are using the means and resources of the State and the bodies and security forces of the State for partisan purposes, neither more nor less than with the desire to cover up other cases of corruption" , he stressed.
The Government spokesperson has affirmed that, for all these reasons, the Executive of Pedro Sánchez has "always an absolute willingness to collaborate with justice" to clarify these facts.
