The Government asked this Tuesday to “go to the end” in the so-called ‘Operation Catalonia’ and Ferraz has taken another step today to demand that the latest known documents “require immediate judicial action.” Party sources do not clarify whether the Prosecutor’s Office should act to determine if there are criminal responsibilities on the part of the Executive. by Mariano Rajoy espionage on independentists outside the law, as the coalition partners have already claimed, or if they will file their own complaint. Of course, they indicate that with respect to the judicialized ‘Operation Kitchen’, this branch “has its own body, although they are the same methods.”
The judicial route, according to the socialists, must be complemented with the investigative commission in Congress agreed with Junts. The objective, they say, is to clarify “both the reach as the creators and connoisseurs of this plot” about which the secret documents known in recent days involve Rajoy’s Executive. Until now, neither the Prosecutor’s Office nor the Spanish courts have found reason to open a procedure to jointly investigate the practices against the independence movement developed by certain agents during the Government of Mariano Rajoy within the framework of ‘Operation Catalonia’. Something that the PSOE trust will change after the revelation of the latest information.
“We are talking about a conspiracy to use elements of the State that are the property of all and paid for by citizens, such as the National Police or the Civil Guard, to spy on political enemies of the Popular Party and the fabrication of false evidence against these”, point out from the PSOE. The Government spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, opened up about Mariano Rajoy’s appearance in the investigation commission and attacked the popular ones because “the facts that we are learning about are very serious and they convey embarrassing and shameful behavior to us.”
From the PSOE they extend the shadow of suspicion with the current management in Genoa. “Are there still people linked to ‘Operation Catalonia’ in the Popular Party today?” they ask to justify that the answer must come from both “judicial investigations” and the Congressional investigative commission. As reported by El Periódico de España, from the Prensa Ibérica group, not even in the case with fifty pieces that is being followed in the National Court against the police sewers and whose main defendant is the former commissioner José Manuel Villarejo is there an investigation into the illegal persecution of the independence movement. The two closest pieces, the one relating to the searches carried out in the Method 3 detective agency and the one about the alleged espionage of the former Latvian consul in Barcelona, ended up archived.
Both Moncloa and Ferraz are feeding the investigation commission, which has not yet organized its work, with new content that redirect their hypotheses. From ‘lawfare’, understood as a dirty judicial war as the independentists point out, to the PP’s use of “the resources of the rule of law”, mainly the security forces, according to the Government. In fact, the PSOE opposes the appearance of judges in the investigation commission, as the independentistas demand.
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Regarding the presence in the current leadership of the PP of people linked to this alleged plot, the socialists say “expect the worst” for what they describe as “thunderous silence from Feijóo and the rest of the relevant positions” at the match. “Faced with the knowledge of the seriousness of these events, the absolute silence of Feijóo and the PP is evident,” the Executive spokesperson also reproached this Tuesday.
The text of the investiture pact with Junts states that the conclusions of the investigation commissions “will be taken into account in the application of the amnesty law to the extent that situations may arise that fall under the concept of ‘lawfare’ or judicialization of politics, with the consequences that, where appropriate, may give rise to liability actions or legislative modifications.” In the absence of the Lower House Table, where PSOE and Sumar have a majority, activate the work of the three commissions, the socialists are now directing all focus on a ‘lawfare’ with a seal more police than judicial and possible “responsibility actions.” The latter, in any case, would be referred to the PP for its alleged use of “springs of the rule of law” for purposes of political persecution outside the law.