Antoni Bassas' analysis: 'Belarra is crazy'

I don't wish Montoro any harm, not even anything close to the harm he tried to inflict on this newspaper in 2018, but I wonder why the judge doesn't take away his passport or make him appear every week to sign it. At least. If you read what the newspapers are reporting on his case today, it's outrageous:

NOW We explain that the prosecutor complained about the slowness of the Civil Guard.The judge wanted an analysis of the bank accounts, but the Civil Guard didn't ask for it.

In The Country They publish that Montoro reduced by 2.2 billion the cuts in the renewable energy companies that were clients of his office before he became minister.

AND The Newspaper He explains that renewable energy companies paid three and a half million euros to Montoro's office, and that the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office claims that Montoro used front men to hide assets, specifically that the firm's partners created a network to conceal profits of 12.8 million euros. This was done by the Minister of Finance, a ministry you don't want to have problems with. And Montoro is so calm? The guy in charge of making us pay taxes is fudging laws and hiding income? And they don't put him in prison?

Of course, the name of the morning, apart from Montoro's, is Ione Belarra, secretary general of Podemos and Minister of Social Affairs from 2021 to 2023. Núria Orriols interviewed him:

And he left her with a headline that would make your coffee with milk hurt: "With immigration powers, the Mossos d'Esquadra would carry out racist raids." It's so serious that I don't want to leave you without the context of what that response was like. Núria Orriols asks her if Podemos maintains it won't support the law delegating immigration powers to Catalonia. You already know that Junts (Junts Party) agreed with the PSOE to delegate immigration powers to the Generalitat (Catalan Government). And Belarra replies:

"Part of the agreement means that from now on, the Mossos d'Est (Catalan police) can carry out the same functions as the National Police, such as carrying out racist raids based on ethnic profiling. In other words, stopping you for your skin color when you exit the subway, when you're on a bus, at work... What the National Police do now would be done by the Mossos d'Es."

First, be clear: it's not that the Mossos d'Esquadra have a strong presence in Catalonia, but rather that they are the integral police force of Catalonia. And regarding the content: what Belarra says is that the immigration law allows racism and that she doesn't want it, regardless of the police that enforces it, and that she doesn't want the immigration law. And because of a possible racist use, can't the Mossos d'Esquadra have jurisdiction over immigration? What's happening, would the Mossos d'Esquadra necessarily carry out racist raids? By this rule of thumb, we don't transfer citizen security to the Mossos d'Esquadra, because it's well known that a police officer can attack a protester. And all that. No, what we're talking about here is a desire to put racism and Junts in the same sentence, because of the "it's just that we're left-wing."

Carles Puigdemont wasted no time in jumping on these statements.:

"Not like the Civil Guard, which, under a very left-wing government and with her as minister, behaved in an exemplary manner in Melilla... These left-wing Spaniards prefer that these powers be vested in a PP and Vox government, which is what will come, rather than being managed by Catalonia, where the situation demands that we have the legal and technical tools, and entails an increase in new arrivals in a very short time. Apart from this, the prejudice she expresses against the Mossos d'Esquadra is first and foremost Spanish supremacist and first and foremost xenophobic. What data does she have at her disposal to be able to make such a serious statement?

Ms. Belarra, you're misusing arguments. To defend human rights, you spread a prejudice (a xenophobic prejudice) about the Catalan police, the same police force that, incidentally, uncovered much of the Montoro case. Then you complain that people don't understand you and don't vote for you.

Good morning.