The obsession of the independentists with the Superior Police Headquarters of Catalonia, located in Via Laietana, has taken the Executive to Give for good “cooked” and “low technical level” reportswith the sole purpose of yielding to their pretensions. Specifically, the Executive of Pedro Sánchez has lent itself to declare this building located in the heart of Barcelona and for this They compare this headquarters with the “Nazi Gestapo” and the “Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) of the Argentine dictatorship”.
This is “a miserable attempt to Serve its independence partners a trophy at the cost of trying dirty the impeccable democratic commitment of national police that provide service in that template “, denounce from the Spanish Police Confederation (CEP). It must be remembered that this building has become a symbol of the state to beat, until now impossible. And therefore, from the Executive they wanted to fold their efforts (in the face of a possible approval of the budgets) and have taken a step further.
On July 22, the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory requested reports to guarantee this measureas explained from this police union. Just a week later, they already had a report prepared by two professors from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Pau Casanellas and Xavier Doménech. A seven -page document in which the headquarters of the Superior Headquarters in Via Laietana “with the secret police of a regime that carried out a holocaust or with the practices of an Argentine military dictatorship that included the kidnapping and murder of opponents to that regime,” clarify from the CEP.
In that report, as a “conclusion”, it is determined that the memorial meaning of the Superior Police Headquarters of Barcelona “resembles, taking into account the differences in historical context and, in some cases, its different nature”, with the School of Mechanics of the Navy of Buenos Aires, “Detention and torture center of the National Intelligence Directorate”or with the topography of the terror of Berlin (headquarters of the Gestapo and the Central Office of Security of the Reich), such as “Neuralgic spaces of repression in dictatorial contexts”.
However, that report suffers from “reliability” if we take into account that It is not able to “establish an exact number of people that passed through the dependencies of the Headquarters during Franco “or that It is very “difficult to document torture and ill -treatment there.” And one more note, from the CEP they emphasize that one of the authors of this document is Xavier Doménech, who held positions of responsibility in Catalonia in Comú, Podem Catalunya and was deputy of Unidas Podemos until his withdrawal in 2018.
The second of the reports, which consists of eleven pages, was prepared by Memorial Democratic, a general agency of the Generalitat of Barcelona. At the head of this entity is Jordi Font, appointed director in 2022 by the Executive of Esquerra Republicana de Cataluña and maintained by the current team of Salvador Illa.