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The Government, on the soiled police struggle towards the Catalan independence motion: “We will go to the last consequences”

The Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports and Government spokesperson, Pilar Alegría, said this afternoon that the Council of Ministers has mentioned and debated the data that was revealed yesterday and in the present day. The vanguard, Eldiario.es y ElNacional.cat in regards to the police actions towards the Catalan independence motion promoted by former minister Jorge Fernández Díaz between 2012 and 2016. “The facts that we are learning about are very serious and, above all, they convey to us absolute embarrassing and shameful behavior. And, above all, behaviors that show the use that the previous PP administration made of the different mechanisms of the rule of law to spy on its political adversaries,” mentioned Alegría. “These are extremely serious events and we are going to reach the ultimate consequences, analyzing even the smallest detail of all the documentation. It is essential that everything is known,” he added.

Pilar Alegría needed to “send a message of tranquility to citizens.” “Tell them that these shameful and embarrassing actions ended in July 2018, when Sánchez became president of the Government,” she mentioned. The spokesperson for the Executive has criticized what she considers the “cry silence” of the PP and its president, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, on the difficulty, and has charged towards the Popular Party: “When it is in Government it uses all the resources of the State of right to persecute his political opponents, and when he is in the opposition he proposes outlawing political opponents who think differently than him.”

Alegría’s phrases come after these media shops revealed yesterday Monday that the then President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, obtained, in response to totally different sources, stories on the unlawful operations of the independence motion in sealed envelopes despatched to him by his Minister of the Interior, Jorge Fernandez Diaz.

These actions, with out judicial safety, consisted of the fabrication of stories that have been leaked to sure media shops the place very critical accusations of corruption have been made, most of them false, towards Catalan independence leaders. Some of those operations have been prosecuted by the police themselves or by the Ministry of the Interior, however the majority resulted in nothing as a result of the judges determined to archive them for the reason that proof used was false.

These unlawful maneuvers towards the Catalan independence motion, confirmed in quite a few summaries opened within the National Court and in different courts, stay unpunished. The decide of the National Court, Manuel García Castellón, teacher of the Tandem case —which investigates the police mafia led by Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo for nearly 20 years— nonetheless has an open investigation —piece 34— which incorporates the so-called audios of corruption revealed by EL PAÍS the place quite a few proof of the maneuvers of leaders of the PP and the police management of the Ministry of the Interior towards the Catalan independence motion. More than a yr and a half after this investigation was opened, the decide has solely taken testimony from these accountable for the media that revealed these audios and not one of the politicians or law enforcement officials concerned in them have been charged with these occasions.