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The Mossos d'Esquadra detach themselves from attempts by sectors of independence and political representatives to feed a conspiracy theory around the 17-A attacks. On the eve of the second anniversary of the Islamist attacks of the Rambla and Cambrils (Tarragona), the chief commissioner of the Generalitat police, Eduard Sallent, openly defended the collaboration that the National Police, the Civil Guard and the National Intelligence Center ( CNI) provided the Mossos during the attacks and during the investigation. "The collaboration was, was and is good," he said in an interview with the agency Efe.

Sallent's words disprove the position that also yesterday expressed the former Interior Minister Quim Forn, the top political leader of the Mossos when the attacks were committed, in an interview granted to the newspaper Ara. From the prison of Lledoners (Barcelona), where he is provisionally imprisoned awaiting sentencing for the trial by the procés , Forn said: " The Spanish government has opted for obscurantism with 17-A" and stokes the doubts spills on the CNI.

Sallent, who was also under the command of Forn, avoided entering into any kind of speculation about the relationship that Abambaki Es Satty had with the CNI and denied that the state security forces, and in particular the secret service, hid anything to the police of the Generalitat. "We have no record that any information was hidden from the Mossos," said who at the time of the attacks was one of the commanders of the Mossos General Information Commission, that is, precisely in charge of carrying out the investigation. . «I have never personally had the feeling that no one has hidden information from me. With the reservations that this may have, when I have maintained a relationship, both with the CNI and with the National Police or the Civil Guard, it has always been frank and mutual.

Since the Public newspaper released without evidence that the relationship of the leader of the cell and the CNI was much longer than admitted and that even the secret service followed the terrorists before the attacks, the conspiracy theory has been fanned from several fronts. One of the first to do so was the president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, who demanded an investigation of what he called "scandal." He also asked the Foreign Minister, Alfred Bosch, to send letters to embassy wings collecting conspiracy arguments. The division within the Government -ERC refused to support it- and the police and journalistic denials to the information of the newspaper that started the chain caused the Government to shorten the speech shortly after. "We ask that the information be clarified, to avoid precisely the possible conspiracy theories," said his spokesman, Meritxell Budó.

The chief commissioner also closes the door to any speculation and recalls that the investigation, carried out by the Mossos d'Esquadra, provided "reliable" evidence of everything that happened. "The Mossos have not detected elements around this issue," he settled . «We are clear how the attack occurred, as we have carried out the investigation. We have accumulated evidence that shows that it is a Ripoll cell that plans the attack and executes terrorist actions as a result of the unexpected explosion in Alcanar (Tarragona), ”he insisted.

Today the second anniversary of the attacks is commemorated in two acts in Barcelona and Cambrils, which come again marked by the politicization of them . The Catalan Association of Victims of Terrorism (Acvot) has announced this week that it will not attend official events -10.00, on Joan's mural he looked at the Rambla- considering that the presence of Torra or Ada Colau is partisan use despite to which no speech is planned. Torra, meanwhile, announced that he will visit Forn in prison next Monday. The Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR) have also convened an act in the Sagrada Familia in which they will defend the conspiracy theory.

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