Demonstration against the police infiltrated into social movements in Barcelona. Carles Ribas
At a streaming press conference in Girona, Óscar C. denounced with a serious gesture that the woman with whom he had lived “under the same roof” for two years and with whom he believed he had a sentimental relationship, was in fact an infiltrator be an agent of the National Police. Together they shared spaces for social, independence and anti-racist activism in Girona and Salt. “He entered the lives of my sister, my mother, my father and my friends,” he explained. But María was in fact a “mole,” as she criticized in the media attention before the government’s under-delegation in the city. “He took advantage of our humanity and made it a threat to us,” he accused, while behind him a group of people stood holding a photo of the young woman.
In a year, the newspaper La Directa has uncovered four suspected national police officers who have infiltrated pro-independence movements and anarchist social movements in Catalonia (three cases) and Valencia (one case). The Interior Ministry confines itself to reminding that the police “strictly obey the law and are solely guided by law enforcement”. Police sources admit that police enter these environments through the figure of the Secret Service agent, which they say does not require court approval. “These are information-gathering tasks,” they explain. Most notorious was the case of a national police officer who maintained stable affective and sexual relationships with various women linked to the libertarian movements of the city of Barcelona. Five of them filed a complaint pending admission.
In fact, the identity of María Perelló hides María I, a young woman who recently graduated from the National Police Academy of Ávila, arrived in Catalonia in May 2020 and reportedly continued to be infiltrated until “yesterday”. denounced the lawyer of the organization Solidarity Alert. “He kept responding to communications. Yesterday they excluded her from the groups of collectives in which she was still,” he explained in detail. Although, according to the same weekly, the young woman left town in June 2022 after La Directa published Marc’s case, the first of the police officers was spotted close to independent student unions. He claimed he had to return to Mallorca because his father was suffering from cancer.
“An infiltrated national police agent, with no qualms, no feelings and no sign of humanization,” Óscar C. continued in his presentation of what his relationship with the young woman meant to him. In La Directa he defines her as the love of his life. “For almost three years it has been part of my daily life, my intimacy, my emotions and my deepest feelings,” he repeated. “His means were our kindness and compassion towards a person who was pretending to be suffering from the effects of his father’s cancer […] “A kindness that has led us to make her our dearest friend, sister and partner,” she described. To conclude that the government has “crossed all the red lines”. Alerta Solidaria’s lawyer has announced that he will lodge a complaint with the judge as soon as more information is available.
The group has not explained what alarms led them to suspect María. However, they have admitted that the origin of the investigation published by La Directa was their own suspicion. “It caused harm and damage to Óscar and his family’s rights, fundamental rights and privacy.” He manipulated feelings and consent,” Solidarity Alert’s lawyer has spoken amply about the infiltration, a “dirty instrument” by which they said they lacked a name to qualify. “They destroyed the lives of the militants and their families.”
Óscar C., the man who claims to have had a relationship with the alleged police, is a well-known activist in the city of Girona. A trial is pending for the cutting of high-speed rail tracks as part of the protests marking the first anniversary of October 1st. The public prosecutor’s office is asking for him and three other people to be sentenced to four years in prison. The Mayor of Girona, Lluc Salellas (Guanyem), along with the leaders of the other two parties that form the government, Gemma Geis (Junts) and Quim Ayats (ERC), attended the rally in front of the government sub-delegation.
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