Setting of scores in the trial of the Supreme Court: the former Catalonian Police Chief of the mossos has exhibited his anger with the independence leaders for having damaged the prestige of the Catalan police
Thursday, 03/14/2019 | Updated at 20:07 CET
The independence referendum was "illegal".The Catalan police warned the Government that voters could oppose with “active resistence” to the agents in charge of confiscating ballot boxes and ballots. The Mossos were as "uncomfortable" with the 1-O as the minister Jordi Jané who resigned. The declarations of his successor in Interior, Joaquim Forn, had "a point of irresponsibility". And the leadership of the police had a plan to arrest the Government if ordered to do so. Advised by his lawyer, the ex-mayor Josep Lluís Trapero could have kept silence in the trial of the Supreme Court, processed as he is by the same events in the National High Court. He also had the option of dodging questions that compromised his defense strategy. But he preferred to face the court to defend the Mossos and tell his truth. Maybe it's not all, maybe it's a part.
Despite the awkwardness of Vox's lawyer, Javier Ortega-Smith, and the experience of lawyer Xavier Melero, the astute president of the court, Manuel Marchena, facilitated that Trapero summarized what he had already declared: that on September 28, 2017 he and the police leadership alerted Carles Puigdemont, Oriol Junqueras and Forn that the 1-O could be the cause of serious incidents in polling stations, that the Mossos were subject to the law and that the then 'president', as he detailed in the National High Court, rejected it invoking the mandate of the people to hold the referendum.
THE NONSENSE OF 1-O
Trapero made clear that on several occasions he talked to political power about the risk of clashes between the citizens - goaded by the Government and the sovereignty parties and entities - and the security forces. That was the nonsense of 1-O: those who promoted a vote prohibited by the Constitutional had under their orders the Mossos, forced to prevent it by court order. By claiming that the Mossos did not bend to the politicians, the former mayor torpedoed, by the way, the charge of rebellion.
It is not necessary to participate in the childish 'hooliganism' that extolled Trapero as a uniformed hero of the independence movement to recognize the esteem he professes for the police force he commanded. Without prejudging whether his orders were intended to abort the 1-O or just pretend that he tried (justice must determine that), he is right when he argues that if "two million people want to do something" a few thousand policemen cannot stop him. At least, not in a peaceful way.
The revelation about the supposed plan of the Mossos to arrest Puigdemont and his ministers after the DUI and the reproach to Forn - "gave an image that fed something that did not correspond to reality, and now we are paying" - illustrate Trapero's motivation to testify before the Supreme Court: settling scores with the independence leaders, who in their madcap career nowhere left badly damaged the Mossos' prestige as an integral police force.
https://www.elperiodico.com/es/opinion/20190314/articulo-enric-hernandez-trapero-con-mossos-contra-politicos-7355099
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