This week's Monday started with the broadcast on the program The world on RAC1 New audio recordings about the so-called Operation Catalonia. Aside from the ineffable Commissioner Villarejo, this time the protagonists were María Dolores de Cospedal and Alícia Sánchez-Camacho. The recording dates back to 2014, at the height of the Catalan self-determination movement. At that time, Villarejo was an active National Police Commissioner, and the two female political leaders wielded considerable power: Cospedal was the general secretary of the PP at the Spanish level, and Sánchez-Camacho presided over the Catalan PP. The former made and unmade Spain, the latter in Catalonia. It's worth remembering, as a very relevant fact, that these were the years when the PP governed Spain with an absolute majority, with Rajoy as president.

Perhaps many Catalans didn't remember the histrionic nature of Alícia Sánchez-Camacho, now that it's been eight years since she ceased to be the leader of the Catalan People's Party (PP) and has continued her political career in the background in Madrid. Rumor has it that services rendered in the Catalonia operation are rewarded. Her appearance this Monday before the Congressional inquiry committee served to refresh memories and revive heated debates, with the volume turned up very high. "Don't call me," Camacho told Podemos MP Martina Velarde. "You're the one calling!" she retorted. The spokespersons for Junts and ERC—two parties fiercely opposed to each other in Madrid today—Josep Pagès and Pilar Vallugera, tried to give each other advice to unsettle Sánchez-Camacho, who ended up driving them crazy. "You didn't come to scold me or insult me. It's embarrassing how you treated my colleagues," Vallugera warned her.

Cospedal and Sánchez-Camacho's time in Congress was just as we reported yesterday here: both denied reality and Camacho still He had the nerve to present himself as a victim.

When you have to go to a Congressional investigation commission to deny the evidence, that is, that Operation Catalunya existed and that you are portrayed, you always have the option of acting offended by acting like a character ofThe Verbena of the Doveand displaying the mastery of the dialectical technique of KO verbosity, which is Alicia Sánchez Camacho's specialty, to make it seem like she's doing it all. Well, there's another specialty, which is the world upside down, and claiming that the only Operation Catalonia was the Trial. There are historical precedents: Franco's courts accused of rebellion all those who remained loyal to the government of the Republic. If you want it more modern, Trump and his imitators accuse others of what they do. In psychology, this is called projection.

Today Cospedal and Camacho (remember Dolores de Cospedal and Alícia Sánchez-Camacho, one a minister and general secretary of the PP from 2008 to 2018 and the other from La Camarga?) will appear in Congress, in the commission of inquiry into Operation Catalonia. RAC1 broadcast this morning new audio recordings of Cospedal talking to Villarejo in which they speak highly of Camacho and congratulate each other because the 2012 elections, which Artur Mas brought forward and caused him to lose twelve deputies, had gone well for the party. patriotic police, with the false information he spread about Catalan politicians.

Declining to acknowledge the authenticity of the audio recordings and claiming they were manipulated and edited. This has been the joint strategy of former PP deputy leader María Dolores de Cospedal and former PP leader in Catalonia Alícia Sánchez-Camacho to evade the new evidence linking them to Operation Catalunya. This Monday, precisely, The world on RAC1 has published a conversation the former Defense Minister had with former Commissioner José Manuel Villarejo in September 2014, in which they openly discussed the dirty war against the independence movement. "I don't remember talking about Catalonia with Villarejo," Cospedal asserted during her appearance before the Congressional commission of inquiry. Far from shedding light on the maneuvers against leaders of the Process, Sánchez-Camacho attempted to spin the narrative: she presented herself as a "second-class citizen" and a victim of "persecution" that "forced her to leave the territory she loved." "This is the real Operation Catalonia," she criticized.