Barcelona public prosecutors have already received the complaint lodged by the former chief of Catalonia's Mossos d'Esquadra police, Josep Lluís Trapero, against the so-called 'patriotic police' brigade, who accused him of false criminal acts, according to the Operation Catalonia secret papers, which ElNacional.cat is publishing from its own analysis. Faced with the new information, Trapero announced, at the end of January, that he would lay a complaint against this "unjust persecution", which was allegedly led by the now-retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo and his team, as noted in one of the informative memos between 2012 and 2014, which were sent to the Spanish interior ministry, led by Jorge Fernández Díaz (PP).
In this memo, Trapero is identified as TRIPI and it is stated that he helped the Jodorovich family, a Barcelona clan investigated for drug trafficking. The police memos also hint that Trapero was deliberately accused in the Macedonia Case, conducted by judge Joaquín Aguirre, although it is not made clear that this took place following a complaint from the internal affairs unit of the Catalan police about the alleged bribery of Mossos officers by a group of drug traffickers and their relationship with the informer and accused money launderer, Manuel Carbajo. The Barcelona Audience acquitted all the officers. For now, it has not transpired if Trapero is directing his complaint against other specific people, in addition to Villarejo.
Case of the prosecutor Rodríguez Sol
Senior Barcelona prosecutor Neus Pujal will now have to decide whether to order the opening of an investigation or refer Trapero's case to the chief prosecutor of Catalonia, Francisco Bañeres, who, at the end of January, opened an investigation following the news of an alleged illegal investigation of the then chief prosecutor, Martín Rodríguez Sol, also by a group of the PP's patriotic police.
"As a public official it is my obligation and also my right: to lay a complaint to justice over an unjust persecution against my person, by individuals who had no legal capacity to do so, aggravated by being paid with reserved funds and that it was only aimed at discrediting and neutralizing me," Trapero told radio station RAC1 in January.