The major of the Mossos d'Esquadra, José Luis Trapero, will act in accordance with what he considers an “obligation” and a “right”, and will denounce to justice the events described this Wednesday by La Vanguardia and Eldiario.es, an orchestrated plot in the Ministry of the Interior under the direction of former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz to try to implicate the head of the Mossos until 2017 in a drug trafficking case.
In a statement issued yesterday, Trapero assures that he will take to court what he considers an “unfair persecution” against him, for a case that went to trial, although it came to nothing due to the acquittal of the accused after a decade of investigation – including the by Trapero himself–, and that it was nothing more than one of the montages that were part of the so-called Catalunya operation against the procés.
The objective of said montage, revealed through one of the informative notes that former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo delivered to the Interior, was for the head of the investigating court number 1 of Barcelona, Joaquín Aguirre, to accuse Trapero in the known as the Macedonia case. , in which an attempt was made to accuse several Mossos agents for their alleged involvement in the use of money from drug trafficking, but with Trapero always as the main objective for “participating in meetings” to “promote the sovereigntist plan.”
" paid with reserved funds,” according to what he reproaches.
The former head of the Catalan police considers “outrageous, frustrating and disappointing” the “persecution” to which he would have been subjected by “other officials and public officials.” This circumstance leads him to reflect: “If they did this to a high-ranking police officer, what have they not done to anonymous citizens throughout their professional careers,” the major questions. That is why he observes “with sadness and concern” the level of “institutional degradation and public management” that is reached when “the search and defense of the general interest is replaced by perverse and personal interests.”
Faced with Trapero's determination, the one who at the moment does not plan to go to court is former president Artur Mas, about whom the published information also reveals prospective police investigations at the height of the process. The former president indicated yesterday on RAC1 that he has the “hope” that this time the investigative commission that must be set up in the Congress of Deputies will go “to the end” with the Catalunya operation, and that “whoever will appear will be summoned to appear.” it has to be cited”, in clear reference to former president Mariano Rajoy, and do not renounce testimonies that you consider important.
Mas says he has considered initiating legal action on several occasions, but has chosen not to do so for now after seeing the path that the lawsuits filed by other people affected in the plot, such as Sandro Rosell, have had so far.
Mas trusts the political path of this matter through the parliamentary commission, with the summons of former senior leaders of the PP such as Rajoy. In fact, the Government has already opened the door to supporting a request for the former popular president to appear to give explanations in this regard, in line with a demand that Junts per Catalunya also makes and that is shared by the Government of the Generalitat.
The Minister of the Presidency and Justice, Félix Bolaños, highlighted yesterday that until 2018, when Pedro Sánchez arrived at the Moncloa after winning a motion of censure against Rajoy based, precisely, on the cases of corruption that affected him, " “The PP was a party that used public resources against political rivals.” “He used the State security forces and bodies to fabricate false evidence,” he denounced. And he did it, in his opinion, “to try to obtain some political gain and try to stop the independence process.” Since that didn't work, "now that they are in the opposition, they want to outlaw the pro-independence political parties," he criticized.
The PSOE leadership insists at the same time on “going to the end to investigate possible crimes committed by the PP Government.” And not only through the congressional investigative commission, but also demanding “immediate judicial action” in the face of the alleged commission of crimes that the journalistic investigation is revealing.
Neither the Executive nor the PSOE plan for now to take the initiative or go to the Prosecutor's Office. But in Ferraz it is striking that none of the alleged irregularities described have been prosecuted so far, when they believe that there is plenty of matter for justice to act or for a court to open proceedings.
“The so-called Catalunya operation is the Watergate of the PP government and Mariano Rajoy,” the PSOE highlights. But they also extend the responsibility to Alberto Núñez Feijóo: “Are there still people linked to the Catalunya operation in the PP? Is Feijóo going to collaborate in these investigations? Does He Know anything that could help us know the whole truth? It is time to talk,” the socialists call.
