Eduard Sallent, former chief commissioner of the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) in two separate periods, will now work at SIMA Consulting, a consulting firm he co-founded. This comes after news broke a few days ago that The commissioner had requested a leave of absence. And that he would leave the Catalan police force after a few weeks, his new destination is now known.

The Mossos d'Esquadra commissioner, Eduard Sallent, will leave the police force in the coming weeks. He was currently the head of the South Metropolitan Police Region. The Catalan police chief has served in two different periods: first under the government of Quim Torra and then under that of Pere Aragonès. When Salvador Illa's PSC party returned to power in Catalonia, the new Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, and the new Director of the Police, Josep Lluís Trapero, dismissed him and appointed Commissioner Miquel Esquius in his place. Sallent's decision to request a leave of absence, as previously reported by The Country And confirmed by the ARA, it has already been communicated to police headquarters.

The Mossos d'Esquadra did not foresee the possibility that former president Carles Puigdemont would flee after his speech at the Arc de Triomf on August 8 last year. They already said so in the Supreme Court, and this Monday the then head of the force, Eduard Sallent, reiterated before the judge that Puig's movement. Judicial sources, Sallent has admitted that he cannot rule out that the three officers investigated for helping Puigdemont flee were aware of the details of the operation that tried to arrest him. in an accusation of cover-up and failure to prosecute crimes. on the operation that day, in which the body's leadership already acknowledged that there had been "errors"According to the same sources, Sallent also told the judge that the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) did not speak with the National Police regarding border control on a day when the police activated a cage operation, which was insufficient to catch Puigdemont before he left Catalonia.