Catalunya operation: Status Espionage and Pact of Silence
In March 2024, The Congress of Deputies of Spain launched the Commission for Investigation on Operation Catalunya. Your goal: clarify complaints about the use of parapolial structures to persecute leaders and activists of the Catalan independence movement.
Accusations include the creation of false police reports and the use of Israeli pegasus espionage software, All this during the Governments of the Popular Party (PP).
"I don't know, I don't know "
They have been cited key figures of the PP: the former president Mariano Rajoy, This week has declared former Vice President Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría - interventor of Catalonia after the application of 155—, The former minister María Dolores de Cospedal and former Minister Cristóbal Montoro.
Until now, Everyone has denied the existence of a parapolical plot or any illegal behavior. They repeat a scripted version: "I don't know, I don't remember, It did not exist, I did nothing illegal outside the Constitution ". A story reminiscent of the trials-farsa against Catalan independence.
In the meantime, The deputies of the PP and Vox defend this narrative with arguments that seem taken from a manual of the Inquisition.
Villarejo and the "Patriotic Brigade"
In the midst of this scenario, Even the former ex -commissioner José Manuel Villarejo, charged in multiple causes and probation, has confirmed the existence of a "patriotic brigade" within the National Police Corps. Formed as a structure that acted with political support and with the objective of "defending the unity of Spain", Through covert operations, espionage, blackmail and filtration of false information to the media.
Artur more "independence" of the regime
The former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas also declared this week, who confirmed the existence of Operation Catalunya and announced that he will file a complaint against those responsible. A Citizen Lab report revealed that his phone was attacked with Pegasus in 32 occasions, Some of them when he was still the position of President. Nevertheless, But he avoided questioning the Bourbon monarchy, recognized his good links with the emeritus Juan Carlos I and Felipe VI, And he ignored his social cuts policy. He claimed his conversations with the PP and explained that the impulse to the 9-N consultations and the 1-O responded to popular pressure, more than a rupturist strategy.
PP and PSOE with save bullets
During the commission sessions, The PP and the PSOE have accused each other, But the only thing that differentiates them is the method: some prioritize repression -garrote-, The others the negotiation -Zanahoria-, The ultimate goal has been the same, Both have acted against Catalan self -determination with the consensual application of the 155. Nor can they hide that complaints of appeal to parapolial practices have been present in the governments of both formations.
Democratic liberties at risk
It is urgent to denounce the use of espionage methods, Judicial harassment and political repression against independence leaders, With total independence of your policy. It is also to defend the hundreds of activists who have been persecuted and prosecuted by a regime that, although formally democratic, maintains control structures inherited from Francoism.
Only an independent commission, backed by popular mobilization, You can get to the truth and sit responsibilities. This must be an active commitment of human rights organizations, of unions like cc.oo. y UGT, of the parties that claim progressive as we can, The common ones, IU, of forces like the CUP, Anti -capitalists and all sectors that really defend democratic freedoms. Because what today is tolerated against independence, Tomorrow will apply against the working class and other forms of political or social dissent.
What to deal with the ’78 regime?
The positioning of leaders as more, Puigdemont, Junqueras, And other referents of Junts and ERC, They reflect a structural limit of the current independence movement: an address that is declared independence, But it acts within the margins of the ’78 regime and the capitalist system.
That is why we believe it is time to exchange ideas, discuss in depth and build a new strategy that exceeds the contradiction that we point out. A strategy that is not limited to the institutional legality of the Spanish State, but promotes a political and organizational project rupturist, anticapitalist and revolutionary, that understand self -determination and socialism as a single fight, indivisible and simultaneous.
