The businessmen ask that the former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, the former leader of the PP Dolores de Cospedal, the former popular leader in Catalonia Alicia Sánchez Camacho and Commissioner Villarejo be investigated.
The Sumarroca family filed a complaint this afternoon with the supreme court against the former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz, the retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, officials from the Ministry of the Interior, the former leader of the PP María Dolores de Cospedal and the former conservative leader in Catalonia Alicia Sánchez Camacho for “Operation Catalonia”. According to the complaint to which EL PERIÓDICO has had access, these Catalan businessmen linked to Jordi Pujol and the CDC (Carles Sumarroca Coixet was one of its founders) attribute the alleged crimes of criminal organization, falsehood, illegal arrests, embezzlement to this plot , among others. The complaint is presented before the high court given Sánchez Camacho’s current status as a senator.
The complaint relates that in recent months publications have appeared in the media that expose how, starting in 2012 and in subsequent years, coinciding with the rise of the Catalan independence movement, commanders of the National Police Corps, members of the Government of the PP, leaders of this party and even the media agreed to develop a plan against people linked to secessionism.
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The strategy, adds the letter, consisted, fundamentally, of obtaining information or preparing false evidence that served to intimidate, investigate, harm and discredit people who, in one way or another, whether true or not, were considered close to the independence movement, since whether they were political positions, public figures, social leaders or businessmen. The complaint signed by Jordi Pina maintains that, according to the news that has appeared, among these people are members of the Sumarroca family.
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The origin of the plot, according to the complaint, stands at the meeting held on November 6, 2012 between Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and the then president of the Catalan Popular Party, Alicia Sánchez-Camacho, at the home of the latter. Throughout said meeting, of which various sound fragments recorded by the former police officer himself have been published by the digital press, the conservative leader provided the commissioner with an authentic “black list” of people who, in her opinion, should be investigated and persecuted police for his alleged relationship with the independence movement. The Sumarroca family appeared in this relationship.
In this sense, the complaint highlights that shortly after that “clandestine” meeting, the claims of the interlocutors “materialized” when criminal proceedings were initiated that, as if they were “inquisitio generalis”, were directed against the members of the family. Sumarroca, among others. The lawyer maintains that they were being investigated not because they had received news about the alleged commission of a crime, but because of their connection, friendship and relationship with Jordi Pujol’s family.