The open crisis within the Mossos d’Esquadra due to the infiltration of two agents in a teachers’ assembly has forced the police director, Josep Lluís Trapero, and the senior officers of the force to meet with the Mossos unions to calm tensions. Among the workers’ representatives, it was not well received that Trapero announced on Wednesday the opening of a confidential investigation that questioned the actions of the agents, who claim that they comply with current regulations.
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This Friday, in a meeting with the chief commissioner, Miquel Esquius, and the head of the General Information Commissariat — responsible for infiltrations — Trapero announced a change in protocols. He wanted to make it clear that the operational maneuver of infiltrating a teachers’ assembly was wrong, but without blaming the agents who carried out the action or the commanders who ordered it, attributing it instead to an outdated protocol, according to sources present at the meeting. In fact, according to these sources, Trapero made a passionate defense of the work of the Mossos d’Esquadra as a whole and, especially, of the Information area.
The police unions demanded in the meeting that the confidential investigation opened as a result of this infiltration does not point “downwards” the responsibilities for this episode.
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Both the Interior Minister, Núria Parlon, and Trapero apologized last Wednesday in the Parliament for this infiltration, considering it a “poorly planned operational maneuver.” They assured that it was “an intervention that is not justified,” but that it was carried out without “bad faith” and without political interference intent.
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