Former Spanish police inspector admits that “politicians have tried to use the police for political aims”
Villarejo implies that the head of Spanish police was under the instruction of the Spanish Vice President in order to investigate Catalan pro-independence leaders
Has the Spanish government ever used the police to investigate pro-independence leaders in order to discredit their movement? A now-retired Spanish police inspector implies so. José Manuel Villarejo admitted that “some politicians have tried to use police for political aims” in an interview to TV program ‘Salvados’ on Sunday. Talking about the current head of Spanish police, Ignacio Cosidó, Villarejo suggested that he was working under the instruction of the Spanish vice president, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría. “He boasted that he did not trust the secretary of State or the minister of Home Affairs and that he was in touch directly with the Spanish vice president."
Villarejo claimed that shortly after People's Party won an absolute majority in the 2011 Spanish general election he was sent to Catalonia for a year to investigate the family of the former Catalan president Jordi Pujol, who held power during 23 years. Pujol had never held an explicit pro-independence stance when being a president. However, in the first years of the 2010s he adopted a secessionist position, at the same time that pro-independence feeling was making a boost in the whole country. In 2014, after many suspicions coming from Spanish media, Pujol admitted having evaded paying taxes following an inheritance that he had received from his father.