The judge of Barcelona investigating the Mossos d’Esquadra accused of facilitating the flight of the former president Carles Puigdemont in August, after his brief reappearance in Spain, has cited To declare as witnesses to the former head of the Catalan Police Eduard Sallent and two mayors.
In a car, advanced by digital Vilawebthe head of the Court of Instruction number 24 of Barcelona, María Antonia Coscolla, has set for June 30 the testimony of Eduard Sallent and the mayors Carles Hernándezhead of the Mossos Information Police Station, and Ignasi Teixidor, SUBJEFE OF THE METROPOLITAN REGION OF BARCELONA.
The objective of the testimony is to ask Sallent and the two mayors for the report they made, at the request of the Supreme Court, about the POLICE DEVICE DESIGN Mounted to detain Puigdemont on August 8, when he returned fleetingly to Barcelona to appear at a rally, coinciding with the investiture of Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat.
Admit that they did not foresee the “distraction maneuver”
In the report, signed by Sallent, the Mossos admitted that their information managers thought that Puigdemont would try to enter the Parliament to attend the plenary, as he had announced, and did not foresee the “distraction maneuver” of the former presidentthat after a brief speech in a stage against the ARC of Triomf He camouflaged between a delegation of charges of his party and undertook the flight into a car that awaited him on the Paseo Lluís Companys.
In this way, the document indicated that the initial device had been designed with the objective “to guarantee the normal development of the investiture debate, maintain public order and citizen security” and stop Puigdemont “if it appeared.”
-The Catalan police report also argued that the Mossos could not arrest Puigdemont due to the “confusion” that he created to guarantee the flight, with the “involuntary” cooperation of thousands of people and the organization of a group of nearby collaborators.
Three accused agents
In the case, the magistrate investigates three agents of the Catalan police who were arrested accused of facilitating the flight of the former Catalan president, including the head of the white tourism in which Puigdemont fled of the Paseo Lluís Companys of Barcelona, where thousands of followers had concentrated to welcome him.
Precisely, that agent asked the judge for months to summon Sallent and the dome of Mossos as witnesses, diligence that the instructor ruled out at that time, so the defense presented appeal before the audience of Barcelona.
Specifically, the agent’s defense requested Sallent’s statement to clarify whether the police device around the Parliament intended guarantee the safety of the investiture of illa or if it was designed with the objective of Stop Puigdemont and thus prevent this could break In the Catalan Chamber, seven years after he left to Belgium to avoid Spanish justice in the cause of ‘procés’.
In her car, the magistrate also agrees to accept Vox as a popular accusation in the case, which already states the association, the association will be heard, after verifying that the extreme right party has paid the 15,000 euros that imposed as bail.
