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    <title><![CDATA[Ara in English - infiltrators]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[If the government has infiltrated Mossos in teacher assemblies, it is a political scandal]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/antoni-bassas-analysis/if-the-government-has-infiltrated-mossos-in-teacher-assemblies-it-is-political-scandal_8_5730810.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/4c2dacab-4dab-4db2-bcfc-5e1950fd554d_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The Spanish government is shining with the public differences of opinion maintained by the Ministries of Health and Defense on whether quarantine is mandatory or not for people who have been in contact with infected individuals by hantavirus. And it is true that the procedures for the outbreak were activated late and poorly, and here we are, urgently searching for passengers who were in contact with the infected and counting cases of people who have isolated themselves in Singapore or are under surveillance in the United States. But what I find unbearable is the political outcry, practically hysteria, surrounding the case. The Canary Islands government does not want the ship in port (as if they were not bringing the affected people to port); Ayuso – who is now dedicated to imitating Pedro Sánchez to play on the international stage as a reference for the most rancid right-wing and goes to Mexico to defend Hernán Cortés to see if she provokes a global scandal – wonders why they have to bring affected people to Madrid (as if they didn't have a reference hospital there), and the PP goes around shouting "This is chaos!" It is a shame, <a href="https://en.ara.cat/society/message-of-reassurance-from-the-who-hantavirus-is-not-covid-it-is-very-different_1_5730101.html" >because we know that hantavirus is not like covid – the WHO has said so –</a>, and we live in a developed country, a member of the European Union, with the capacity to treat this disease. We come from a pandemic in which many people suffered a lot and became very anxious, which triggered mental illnesses, and now what would be appropriate would be to have a sense of state. <a href="https://en.ara.cat/politics/the-pp-criticizes-the-hantavirus-management-it-s-chaos_1_5730059.html" >When a crisis is still open, one must think twice about the messages</a> and leave the criticism for when it is resolved.Regarding open crises, the war in Iran continues but has already reached levels of confusion that begin to resemble that Gila war, where a general would pick up the phone and ask for the enemy. At this moment, officially, the ceasefire holds, but <a href="https://en.ara.cat/international/the-us-bombs-iranian-facilities-and-brings-the-ceasefire-into-unknown-territory_1_5730616.html" >the United States and Iran continue to exchange attacks</a>. Trump doesn't know how to end this war, to which he was dragged by Israel, which is making gasoline more expensive for him and, therefore, angering his voters. That's why he continues to say things from the height of a bell tower, opening controversies and alternative fires, such as when he said that the Pope was endangering many Catholics because he didn't care if Iran had the atomic bomb. But the Pope put him in his place with a sentence destined to go down in the history of his pontificate: “If anyone wants to criticize me for announcing the Gospel, let them do so with the truth, because the Church has spoken out against all nuclear weapons for years, and there is no doubt about it.” Very well said.Another political crisis: teaching unions have reported detecting undercover police officers at teachers' assemblies. An explanation from the Government is urgently needed. It would be unacceptable, typical of an authoritarian regime. This morning, when asked about the matter on SER, President Illa brushed it off saying the minister would provide explanations, implying the president knows nothing and has no reason to know anything. It doesn't look good, especially in the midst of the labor conflict between teachers and the department, as it seems they were spying on them. I certainly think explanations are needed.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Antoni Bassas]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 08 May 2026 08:44:05 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Teaching unions have reported that they detected infiltrated police officers at teachers' assemblies. An explanation from the Government is urgently needed. It would be unacceptable, typical of an authoritarian regime. This morning, when asked about the issue on SER, President Illa brushed it off by saying that the minister would provide explanations, as if to imply that the president knows nothing about it and has no reason to know anything about it. It doesn't look good, especially in the midst of the labor conflict between teachers and the department, because it seems like you went to spy on them. I certainly believe explanations are needed.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Black roses]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/opinion/black-roses_129_5584030.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/764c1c53-ca82-40b3-aaeb-4d6fb1f3ed45_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_1048636.jpg" /></p><p>On the unconstitutional eve of another momentous anniversary, it must be remembered once again that the last police officer of the Franco dictatorship was the first of the democratic era. There's no need to look for examples; they all are; and all of them mean one; and this includes everyone from the first to the last. Unfortunately, the same logic applies to the murky figure of the police infiltrator driven by state-sanctioned psychosis: the last one still serving under the dictatorship—for example, Mikel Lejarza.<em>Wolf</em>—he was also the first mole of democracy. And so on in so many orders of disorder, with the unfortunate providence that in the case of infiltrators in two seemingly distinct stages—dictatorship and dictatorship—they share a common trait, a trait that is a blessing to any possibility of democracy: the same state impunity. Under both regimes, at such different times, it turns out that they are planned and orchestrated systematically in the same way and from the depths of depravity: in the most absolute and shadowy illegality. Following journalistic investigations by <em>The Direct</em>It will soon be a year since the documentary <em>Infiltrators </em>broadcast in <em>30 minutes</em> It awakened us from that opaque figure, unregulated everywhere, called<em>intelligence agent</em>Quite different from an undercover agent acting under judicial mandate and monitoring, legally permitted under certain circumstances. But the supposed democracy, in that blind spot, draws on a vein of true dictatorship: in the name of the law but always outside of it, without any kind of control, only at the gray whim of the food chain of repression and under the same order: the bottomless pit of <em>national security</em>.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Fernàndez]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:15:41 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Several people hold signs with the face of the Spanish police officer who infiltrated Lleida for two years, at a rally in front of the Spanish government subdelegation.]]></media:title>
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      <title><![CDATA["We need to regulate what crimes can be prosecuted with police infiltrators."]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/politics/the-police-have-prior-information-from-far-right-groups_128_5346821.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/6c95df50-2b29-4c55-abf8-515bba0e0382_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0_x1215y634.jpg" /></p><p>Daniel Campos (Madrid, 43 years old), journalist and between 2020 and 2023 director of communications at the Ministry of the Interior, reveals in <em>Lavapiés Guerrilla </em>(Peninsula, 2025) The infiltration of a national police officer (recently recruited) into the anti-globalization movement in Madrid, with its epicenter in the central neighborhood of Lavapiés. It's the early 2000s, and the leadership and dialectical skills of a young man with a ponytail: Pablo Iglesias, stand out.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ot Serra]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:27:24 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Daniel Campos.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Journalist and author of 'Guerrilla Lavapiés']]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sixth undercover police officer discovered: he posed as an activist in Lleida for two years]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/politics/sixth-undercover-police-officer-discovered-he-posed-as-an-activist-in-lleida-for-two-years_1_5334114.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/764c1c53-ca82-40b3-aaeb-4d6fb1f3ed45_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_1048636.jpg" /></p><p>Another case of police infiltration in social and political movements in the Catalan Countries, and this makes six. The latest <a href="https://directa.cat/un-policia-espanyol-sinfiltra-dos-anys-en-lactivisme-de-lleida/" rel="nofollow">research of </a><a href="https://directa.cat/un-policia-espanyol-sinfiltra-dos-anys-en-lactivisme-de-lleida/" rel="nofollow"><em>The Direct</em></a>, published this Tuesday, reveals that a National Police agent spent just over two years infiltrated activism in Lleida, around the pro-independence left. Under the false identity of Joan Llobet Garcia, and graduating from the Ávila Police School just a year before starting the espionage operation, the agent landed in the capital of Segrià in September 2019 and left in November 2021. During this time he was actively involved in the SANT protests against the Proceso sentence (2019) and those in support of the Lleida rapper Pablo Hasél.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:27:23 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Several people hold signs with the face of the Spanish police officer who infiltrated Lleida for two years, at a rally in front of the Spanish government subdelegation.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The agent was a member of the pro-independence left and participated in protests against the sentence of the Proceso and in support of rapper Pablo Hasél.]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Spanish policewoman infiltrated the Palestinian movement and the left-wing independence movement for two years]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/spanish-policewoman-infiltrated-the-palestinian-movement-and-the-left-wing-independence-movement-for-two-years_1_5304744.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/e99543ff-12ce-47bf-9c2c-5e135b92481d_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_1047989.jpg" /></p><p>New case of infiltration in Catalan social and political movements. A 26-year-old National Police officer spent more than two years infiltrating the movement for Palestine and the pro-independence left, according to <a href="https://directa.cat/una-policia-espanyola-sinfiltra-durant-dos-anys-al-moviment-per-palestina-i-a-lesquerra-independentista/" rel="nofollow">published this Wednesday</a><a href="https://directa.cat/una-policia-espanyola-sinfiltra-durant-dos-anys-al-moviment-per-palestina-i-a-lesquerra-independentista/" rel="nofollow"><em> The Direct</em></a><em> </em>and have denounced the affected groups in a joint press conference this morning. Under the name of Belén Hammad Gómez, the agent used the Palestinian Community of Catalonia as a gateway to activism and then approached the Casal Popular 3 Voltes Rebel, in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona, ​​​​and the left-wing independentist organization Endavant. From these spaces, in the fall of 2019 he actively participated in the mobilizations against the sentence of the Process, including the protests in Plaza Urquinaona.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 05 Mar 2025 07:42:04 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Natalia Abu-Sharar, president of the Palestinian Community of Catalonia, this morning at the joint press conference with the rest of the groups affected by the infiltration]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The agent, who was a member of a popular centre in Nou Barris and the Endavant organisation, was involved in the post-sentence protests in 2019]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Police officer infiltrated pro-independence left and housing movement for two years]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.ara.cat/society/police-officer-infiltrated-pro-independence-left-and-housing-movement-for-two-years_1_4395894.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/1ce7d58f-5df7-4ad2-b27f-6efc7130da7c_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The Catalan Countries Student Union (SEPC) and Alerta Solidària have informed this morning that they have expelled a young man from various pro-independence taskforces and online groups, as well as housing rights campaigns, after verifying that he was an infiltrated Spanish police officer. The case, which was <a href="https://directa.cat/un-agent-de-la-policia-espanyola-sinfiltra-a-lesquerra-independentista-i-al-moviment-pel-dret-a-lhabitatge/" rel="nofollow">broken this morning</a> the biweekly <em>Directa</em>, was explained this morning at a press conference in front of the University of Barcelona's historic building. Spokespeople of both organisations have explained that, after weeks of investigations, they had been able to verify that the man had been using a false identity for two years to infiltrate these circles and obtain "valuable" information. They denounce that this is a new case of "ideological political persecution", another "consequence of the State's repression".</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Maria Ortega]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:03:28 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Concentration, this Tuesday morning, in front of the UB to denounce that the Spanish police have infiltrated pro-independence and pro-housing youth movements]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[He had entered organisations such as the Catalan Countries Student Union and Resistim al Gòtic]]></subtitle>
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