From Operation Catalonia to the Civil Guard operation against Pedro Sánchez

MadridNot even two months ago, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska boasted from Congress of having cleaned up the state's sewers, from where, during Mariano Rajoy's last government, the dirty war against the independence movement had been waged, known as Operation Catalunya, with all the maneuvers that this Monday the former mayor of Barcelona, ​​Xavier Trias, and the president of ERC, Oriol Junqueras. Have irregular practices in the state security forces been eradicated? Sánchez. In times of pandemic, Marlaska dismissed Colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos as head of the command of the Civil Guard in Madrid for refusing to inform the then Spanish government delegate, José Manuel Franco, of the investigation.

The Central Operative Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard is also now acting as judicial police in the Ábalos case, but has already leaked, in some right-wing media, part of the contents of an unfinished report that, supposedly, will be submitted to the Supreme Court in the coming days. In statements on Thursday on La Sexta, Cerdán said: "Whoever finds the Audi, I'll give it to them before a notary." The Minister of Justice, Félix Bolaños, has sworn in for his fellow officer. The dismissal of Pérez de los Cobos—it is a risky maneuver to intercede with them. Given the Spanish government's desire to investigate who leaked the information. WhatsApp between Sánchez and former minister José Luis Ábalos published by The World, some wondered this week if Marlaska could have sounded out the UCO (University of Coahuila) if he was behind it. If he did and it became known, it would be considered a scandal.

Supreme Court Justice Manuel Marchena has just published a book entitled Justice THREATENED [in capital letters] and will be in bookstores on Wednesday. The first synopses do not suggest that the until recently president of the Supreme Court's criminal division believes that justice is threatened by matters such as espionage with Pegasus—also during the PSOE government—or Operation Catalunya, which so far have had no judicial consequences. Rather, they suggest that the problem is political interference. The first chapter, in fact, is titled "Who does the Prosecutor's Office report to? Well, that's it...", recalling that unfortunate phrase from Pedro Sánchez.

Leaving the chamber on Wednesday, Alberto Núñez Feijóo bumped into a little girl, the daughter of a journalist, who was holding lottery tickets to pay for her school trip. The PP leader approached her—much to her innocence, as she didn't know she was speaking to a leader of the opposition—and joked about the PP congress, which, of course, she didn't understand: "This girl will be good at finding delegates."

During Wednesday's control session, Pedro Sánchez said, following the published WhatsApp messages, that "today we're in the laundry room." He then moved on to informal conversations with journalists. A member of the Spanish government, speaking casually about the Ábalos case, expressed surprise at the former minister's success in the sexual arena. "He's not..." meaning he's not particularly attractive.