Carles Puigdemont has denounced that "no one from the Spanish justice system" will pursue those who "address us as sons of bitches", after having listened to the latest audios of ex-police commissioner José Manuel Villarejo. This Monday the newspaper El País published a new leak of audio recordings that incriminate all the participants of Operation Catalonia, especially Francisco Martínez (number two at the Spanish interior ministry under Jorge Fernández Díaz). In the audios, Villarejo can be heard warning Martínez of the danger of the Catalan independence movement and giving the view that the Spanish government must act both quickly and decisively: "Difficult times are ahead and you need to have a team of honest, serious and tough people for those Catalan sons of bitches and those Basque sons of bitches. The Basques have been spooked, I know. Because of that they're shit-scared."
These words did not please Puigdemont, who expressed his indignation on social media: "This is not four buddies around the table after a summer lunch, they are representatives of the state addressing us as sons of bitches and conspiring against democracy. But you won't see anyone from the Spanish 'justice' system interested in pursuing them," he asserted. In the face of this, the former Catalan president concluded that "they violate our rights because they believe we have none".
In the recordings, the ex-commissioner expresses his pride in the work done with "this work (against the Catalans)": "This work, one day someone will write about it because we have changed this country's history, believe me". Villarejo wanted to move ahead rapidly with Operation Catalonia, but Martínez was not in a hurry. Faced with these differences, the audio shows, the threats begin: either the dirty war continues or everyone involved ends up being betrayed. "I tell you what I've done. I'm meeting with a notary friend of mine tonight, and this morning I've deposited with him evidence for an affidavit, in case for some reason I am stopped or something happens to me, it is deposited," says the ex-commissioner, but the number two of the interior ministry under prime minister Mariano Rajoy does not know what evidence he is referring to. "I have proof that you are all in on this business," Villarejo replies.
The "business" that the ex-commissioner referred to was the police report that brought together faked evidence against pro-independence politicians. Villarejo had leaked this report to the Madrid daily El Mundo two weeks earlier. This is how he bragged about it to Martínez: "Why did [editor] Pedro J. publish it? Because I'm the only one who, at eight o'clock in the evening, can say to a fool like [Eduard] Inda: 'Oh, that, why don't you publish that, pa-pa-pa-pa...'. And at nine o'clock it's being printed." To sum up: yet another scandal from the sewers of the Spanish state.