This is the official report that demonstrates the 'coladero' of Lledoners (and denies Risto Mejide)

"Mr. Chief of Services: As Head of Unit of the Communications Department of this Penitentiary Center, I inform you of the following facts." This is the beginning of the official report written by the person in charge of regulating visits in the Lledoners prison (Barcelona) regarding the interview conducted by the presenter Risto Mejide in jail to the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Generalitat Raül Romeva, who is serving prison there preventive

Penitentiary sources explain that the official, with more than 20 years of experience, is a highly respected public servant among his colleagues. They also say that he is suffering from "enormous pressures" since he sent his report to his superior.

The report is dated Saturday. EL MUNDO reproduces a copy , registered on the intranet of the Catalan penitentiary system. The original, with the official's signature, is delivered in print. In the two-page document, the official asks his superior to relieve him of his duties and relocate him because "the most basic security and equality regulations" were violated and "asymmetric treatment and favoritism were demonstrated. evident "between some prisoners and others, which supposes a" discredit "for the work of the workers of Lledoners.

Thus, he tells how the deputy director of Treatment of Lledoners, a member of the management team of the center and recently appointed by the Generalitat, guided the "three visitors" to the booths through an unusual access "without going through any security measure" and "In front of 35 people who were waiting in the room" waiting to see other inmates.

The official does not quote the presenter, although prison sources detailed to this newspaper that the group was formed by him, Romeva's wife and a third person who turned out to be another journalist for Cuatro. It was also confirmed later by UGT, a majority union in Catalan prisons, which has demanded from the Generalitat the "immediate dismissal" of the Deputy Director of Treatment, to which he attributes a "very serious and flagrant breach" of the prison security protocols.

The episode around Mejide's interview with Romeva is another drop in the series of privileges that, according to prison sources, secessionist prisoners are enjoying in Catalan prisons. The problem is not Mejide - who the official does not accuse of requesting any favor treatment for himself - but the bulky payroll of visits that camouflaged inmates are receiving as visits by authorities.

On October 1, 2018 they were allowed to celebrate Jordi Sanchez's birthday there, without depriving himself of cakes, as this newspaper told. The digital El Confindencial has also published that up to 21 people - including politicians, businessmen, journalists, etc. - have come to visit the prisoners in a single day, while in the parking lot of the jail the official cars follow one another.

TWO MANDATORY SAFETY CONTROLS

In a letter sent to this newspaper, the Todo es Mentira program team denied that it had entered the prison without passing the mandatory security checks, as the official says in his report. Along the same lines, a spokesman for the Catalan Department of Justice - on which the center depends - said that the prison security cameras recorded the journalist passing the corresponding security arches.

Actually, according to Lledoners sources, they are half true. Security cameras effectively recorded Mejide and his companions overcoming the security arch of the main gate of the prison. But, these sources insist, once this control passed, the Deputy Director of Treatment took the three visitors to the Romeva booth without crossing the second metal detector they had to overcome, as stated in the report.

"That control did not pass, and should have forced them to pass," say the sources consulted. That is when the official - who would commit a crime if he lied in his report - denounces that "the entry has been through the [door] M-17 without going through any security measures."

The Generalitat has relieved the former director of the Lledoners prison this summer. The new one, Susana Gracia, occupied until then the position of Deputy Director of Treatment of the prison, the position whose dismissal now asks UGT.

The harsh report of the official in charge of the visits in the Lledoners prison comes a week after the State Attorney General's office wrote down his doubts regarding the "impartiality" of the prison services of Catalonia regarding the possible convicts of the process .

In its 2018 report, presented by the State Attorney General, María José Segarra, the Public Ministry says: "To mean that the authorities of the Generalitat de Catalunya, including the current General Director of Penitentiary Institutions, have publicly shown their rejection of the Provisional detention agreed with respect to those prosecuted for very serious crimes that took place during the so-called process , which they consider political prisoners, such manifestations may call into question the conditions of tranquility and impartiality that must necessarily be met by the authorities and officials of the Penitentiary Administration of Catalonia when they have to evaluate the prisoners if they are finally convicted. "

Meanwhile, the president of the Generalitat, Quim Torra, has called for "civil disobedience" if the sentence of 1-O is not absolutory.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• UGT
• Risto Mejide
• Quim Torra
• Jordi Sanchez
• Catalonia
• Barcelona

Prisoners of independenceUGT asks the Generalitat to dismiss the deputy director of Lledoners who 'snuck' Risto Mejide

Catalonia Separatist punch before the sentence of the procés

PoliticsTorra calls "mow the chains" and "exercise self-determination"