Two types of practices, equally denounceable, can be inferred from the information made public in relation to the mediator case Yet the operation Cataloniaand both, presumably, respond to two manifestations of the same phenomenon: corruption. The corruption that nests in the conviction of impunity. As much as there are nuances both in the practices and in the treatment that the parties affected by each of the cases, the PSOE in the Mediator case and the PP in the Catalonia operation, have given the matter, as well as the possible implications of each one. from them.
The Mediator case, according to the investigations, is a network conceived with the purpose of facilitating the achievement of contracts, public subsidies and European aid that expedited the granting of licenses and avoided inspections and sanctions in exchange for the payment of commissions. The already would be involved in it former socialist deputy Juan Bernardo Fuentes Curbelo and some senior officials, including the retired general of the Civil Guard Francisco Javier Espinosa, for the moment the only one who has entered prison accused of the crimes of bribery, influence peddling and belonging to a criminal group. The PSOE has reacted by demanding and achieving the resignation of the allegedly corrupt deputy. But beyond individual conduct, in the sale of favors by the Administration there must be corrupt, corrupters and facilitators in positions of responsibility: and all must come to light. Using the Congress of Deputies or the General Directorate of the Civil Guard to entangle the would-be corruptors, even if the promised counterparts were finally illusory, is enough to consider what happened as something more than a particular case.
The Catalonia operation, on the other hand, would be a plot concocted by some State powers, which would include judges and the police -among them the ex-commissioner Villarejo– with, if not the impulse, at least with the connivance of political power, from the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz even the autonomous deputy in the Madrid Assembly and also Senator Alicia Sanchez Camachowith the purpose of looking for indications, or inventing them, of behaviors that could compromise pro-independence political leaders or people allegedly linked to that environment, such as Sandro Rosell. And, by the way, obtain some other particular benefit. The admission for processing of the complaint filed by the latter, who unfairly remained in pretrial detention for two years by decision of the judge lamella before being acquitted, it is good news to begin to clarify the facts.
Given the reactions of one and the other to the information that has been occurring, it should be remembered that neither pointing out the involvement of the political opponent in other compromising plots serves as a valid argument to clear responsibility for their own, nor does it influence the hypothetical greater or less relevance of each of them. Transparency and the assumption of responsibilities is equally required in both cases. And in all of them (as in the Pujol case or others pending sentencing) a scourge of Spanish democracy emerges, the conviction of feeling shielded and unpunished, which no position should reinforce, but rather deny.