JxCat and PNV ask to set up investigative committees on ‘Operation Catalonia’ and the 17-A attacks

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At the end of the last parliamentary term (March 28, 2023), a commission for these actions, the so-called ‘Operation Catalonia’, was already established, but it can only start its work ‘in a very limited and conditional way’. both groups have recalled.

JxCat and PNV have requested in the Congress of Deputies the establishment of investigative committees on the so-called ‘Operation Catalonia’ against the Catalan independence movement and other implications arising from it attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on August 17, 2017.

In one of the letters addressed to the Council of the Congress of Deputies, both groups propose the creation of a new parliamentary commission for ‘Operation Catalonia’ and for the actions of the Interior during the PP governments regarding the alleged irregularities related keep with senior police officers and commanders with the existence of one parapolice plot.

At the end of the last parliamentary term (March 28, 2023A commission for these actions has already been established, but it can only begin its work “in a very limited and conditional manner, ending with the dissolution of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate and the calling of general elections.”

“Since then, new information and recordings about it have appeared in the media, a fact that entails not only the need to resume the work of that committee, but above all to give it a coherent function with the desire to investigate, contrast and clarify. the scope of the so-called Operation Catalonia,” they explain in the joint letter signed by the spokespersons of both formations.

They refer to the recommendation adopted on October 11 by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe for Spain to report on the use of the PEGASUS programinvestigate all confirmed or suspected cases of espionage abuse and ensure that victims of espionage receive adequate compensation or refrain from using national security to circumvent surveillance mechanisms, among other things.

Only the former commissioner appeared in the committee that started last term. Jose Manuel Villarejo who pointed out that the so-called ‘Operation Catalonia’, which allegedly damaged the image of Catalan pro-independence politicians, was designed from the ‘guts’ of the presidency of Mariano Rajoy’s government and led by the National Intelligence Center (CNI).

In another letter, JxCat and PNV propose to set up a commission on the right to know the truth and the implications of the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on August 17, 2017.

They want to clarify what the alleged political or other responsibilities were in the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils and propose restitution or compensation measures for all people affected by the attacks, as well as for the relatives of those who died.

Source: EITB

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