The plot orchestrated in the Ministry of the Interior, whose head was Jorge Fernandéz Díaz, attempted to implicate the greatest head of the Mossos d'Esquadra from 2013 to 2017, Josep Lluís Trapero, in a case of drug trafficking, in one of the setups that They were part of the so-called Catalunya operation against the process.
According to some of the information notes prepared by Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo between July and September 2013, and sent to the Operational Directorate of the Police and the Ministry of the Interior itself, the objective was that the head of the investigating court number 1 of Barcelona , Joaquín Aguirre, will accuse the head of the Mossos. This was known as the Macedonia case, in which an attempt was made to accuse several agents of that body for their alleged involvement in the use of money from drug trafficking to pay confidants and for their own benefit, with Trapero always as the main objective. As a consequence of the actions of the patriotic police, Judge Aguirre ended up sending police sub-inspector Josep Ranea to provisional prison, who was also suspended for a year and a half from employment and salary.
In the end, everything was a fiasco. The investigation of the matter lasted a decade and the trial sentence, in 2022, issued an acquittal for all those involved.
As can be read in the documents to which La Vanguardia and El D iario.es have had access and which accompany this information, the Interior plot attempted to involve the head of the Mossos in the process in the matter and for this purpose approached some agent of the Catalan security force to seek their complicity and advance in the “maneuver to penetrate TRIPI's circle of trust” (Trapero).
In the reports, this collaborator identifies himself as “M” and his intention is to strengthen “relations with his enemies [of Trapero], who in addition to Manos Médicas is Judge Aguirre.” In the same reports, Trapero is accused of “participating in meetings” to “promote the sovereignty plan.”
According to the aforementioned documents, a person from the field of private security, M, acted as an infiltrator: “He continues to enrich his relationships with Fernando Martínez Iglesias, a lawyer who handles the Manos Médicas accusation in the matter of court number 1, which affects the accusations of [Trapero] and his team, as well as with Albert Rivera and Jordi Cañas, president and spokesman of Ciudadanos, with whom a good relationship is being consolidated, which can be dimensioned in the best possible way.
In reality, the network of corrupt police officers who tried to manipulate the Macedonia case had already been persecuting Major Trapero since 2009. In that year, the police officer, who was then mayor and deputy head of criminal investigation of the force, led the dismantling of a group of corrupt police officers who received bribes from the managers and owners of two large brothels in Castelldefels, Saratoga and Riviera, in exchange for protection and warnings of possible interventions by the security forces.
As a result of this investigation, several senior police officials linked to Commissioner Villarejo ended up being denounced, dismissed and convicted; to the head of the UDEF and other organizations, José Luis Olivera; and Antonio Giménez Raso, former inspector and Villarejo's right-hand man in Catalonia. The three, by the way, investigated within the framework of the Tandem case that is being investigated in the National Court.
For this reason, the patriotic police saw in the Macedonia case and in the process a possibility of passing the bill to Trapero. In 2016, the police included in the information processing support group (Gati), which records ongoing investigations, the following reference against the head of the Catalan police: “The Jodorovich family is protected by the current head of the Mossos d'Esquadra, Mr. Trapero, in their drug trafficking issues.”
The maneuvers of these police officers against Trapero and some agents were denounced in 2021 by the Mossos before player number 6 of the National Court led by Manuel García-Castellón, which is investigating the Tándem macro case against Villarejo and his associates. The magistrate, however, ruled out that there were connections between what happened in Barcelona and his instructions, so he refused to investigate the matter and did not rule on whether the actions of those police officers could be a crime.
Trapero was charged in a case linked to the referendum of October 1, 2017 in which he was initially accused of rebellion, later reduced to sedition, and a ten-year sentence was requested. He was finally acquitted by the National Court in October 2020. After the sentence, he returned to be the head of the Mossos until the end of 2021. Currently, Trapero is head of the general inspection and evaluation police station.
