Judicially investigating Operation Catalonia has become a utopia. In recent years, victims of the patriotic police have tried their best to bring the leadership of the State's sewers to court, but they have permanently hit a wall. The answer has always been the same: the facts are not a crime and are based on press reports, despite the eloquent audios that attest to them. In recent weeks, however, two windows of opportunity have opened, although the possibilities of an investigation proceeding remain slim. In fact, so far, the only person convicted for Operation Catalonia has been Eugenio Pino, who was deputy operational director (DAO) of the Spanish police, for Jordi Pujol's eldest son's famous USB.

Sandro Rosell only testified for 15 minutes before the judge, but it was enough time to leave the main character of the day in court. "With Messi and Piqué at Barça, we didn't have to pay Negreira," the former Barça president declared, according to Efe, at the courthouse. It was an intense morning at the City of Justice in Hospitalet de Llobregat, which also saw the presence of another former Barça president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, and Javier Enríquez Romero, the son of José María Enríquez Negreira, the former vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees (CTA). Between father and son, Barça paid a total of 7.3 million euros between 2001 and 2018.