It is well known that to rectify is wise. Therefore, it is right that the Department of the Interior finally apologizes for the infiltration of two Mossos d’Esquadra agents in teachers’ assemblies. The problem is that the admission of guilt comes late, after an initial note from the Interior where the espionage was justified with the excuse that the agents are obliged to gather information to “assess threats and risks.” The statement claimed that the action was backed by the law, but the debate was not about this, but about the sense of sending police officers to spy on teachers’ assemblies amid a labor conflict between the Government and some unions.
Consellera Núria Parlon and the Director General of Police, Josep Lluís Trapero, appeared yesterday in the Parliament to admit it was a mistake and apologize to the teachers, but the opposition did not accept the explanations and demanded the resignation of both. Beyond the reasons some parties may have to request these resignations, in Trapero’s case there are unresolved issues with parties like Junts or ERC, who do not forget that the major had a plan to arrest the leaders of the procés after the declaration of independence.
A lot has changed since the Mossos d’Esquadra began to develop under the governments of Jordi Pujol, but the veterans will remember the so-called mortadelos, who were agents of an embryonic intelligence service within the force that carried out controversial investigations, such as placing a mole in a sect – CEIS –
or following political leaders from other parties.
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That is history. The Mossos d’Esquadra today have nothing to do with that police force that was in its infancy, but this action is more typical of that incipient group of agents than the current one. Someone mentioned the word inertia yesterday and that is precisely what cannot happen today in a professional and democratic police force like, without a doubt, the Mossos d’Esquadra.
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