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The Ministry of Interior has decided to send several groups of riot police from the National Police to Catalonia and will evaluate with the Generalitat and the Mossos d'Esquadra, which is the body in the first instance to guarantee security in the region, if it increases the provision of reinforcement in the coming days, coinciding with the anniversary of the 1-O and the sentence of the procés , police sources have informed Europa Press.

A year ago, Minister Grande Marlaska reinforced Catalonia by sending in a phased manner 600 600 troops from the Police Intervention Unit (IPU), known as riot police, in the week prior to the celebration of the Diada, in September, and the announcement of independence mobilizations in autumn.

Interior sources explain to Efe that the riot control device is part of the "police normality" in situations that may affect citizen security and state administration buildings.

A week after the second anniversary of the illegal 1-O referendum, five groups of the IPU, more than 200 agents, have been mobilized to travel to Catalonia, according to police sources.

In principle, the staggered deployment of 15 groups of IPUs is planned , some 750 troops , coming from various parts of Spain, collects Efe from other police sources.

However, this number could be lower, since the security reinforcement is planned in Zaragoza on the occasion of the Pilar festival and also in Valencia on October 9, the day of the Valencian Community and whose celebration two years ago was also seen tarnished by grave altercations and arrests.

The deployment of more riot agents in Catalonia has already begun , although the total number of troops that will be transferred to this community is not definitively closed, as it may vary depending on the needs considered by the commands of the National Police and the Mossos d'Esquadra.

According to the sources consulted, the number of troops will be adapted to the analysis of the experts and the intensity of the protests. In fact, these studies have already taken into account the detention of the nine people linked to the CoR and will be made available to a judge of the National Court tomorrow.

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