The ministry headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska responded in this way to the request of the investigating judge of the ‘processes’. As indicated, it activated ‘extraordinary operational and intelligence resources’ as soon as the escape was known.
On Tuesday, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior informed the investigating judge about the case processesPablo Llarena, that he offered the Mossos d’Esquadra “every operational support” to arrest former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont, although The Catalan police did not need “such support beyond the usual”.
Through a press release, the department headed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska explained that it has already sent the report requested by the magistrate of the Supreme Court on the planned police operation for the arrest of Puigdemont and on the elements that determined the “failure” of his capture.
The report also states that in the surveillance equipment set up by the National Police and the Guardia Civil at the border with France, “the former president was not detected at any time”.
In that document, the Ministry of the Interior states that Arrest of Puigdemont ‘It is, is and will be an operational objective until it is fulfilled for all police units and services of the ministry”.
In its report, the ministry states that “the National Police and the Civil Guard have maintained controls activated at borders, ports and airports and throughout Catalonia since the days before 8 August, especially in the city and metropolitan area of influence of Barcelona”. Furthermore, it adds that the National Police and the Civil Guard “did not carry out parallel operations” with the Mossos d’Esquadra to arrest the former president.
On the other hand, the document recalls that the Article 67 of the Treaty on European Union guarantees the absence of controls on people at internal borderswhich must be able to be crossed everywhere without any border inspection of people, regardless of their nationality. “Restrictions that make it difficult for any police control apparatus to guarantee absolute impenetrability, even with prior information or legal control or monitoring devices,” reads the text sent by the Ministry of the Interior to Judge Llarena.
Source: EITB
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