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Pablo Casado had planned to access today the Superior Police Headquarters of Barcelona, ​​at 13.30, to discuss with the agents who have faced in the last week the violent disturbances that have the City of Barcelona. But the Delegation of the Government has prevented it, after having given its approval at first, as denounced in the PP.

Casado has moved to Barcelona on Monday to meet with agents of Barcelona civil society and to take an interest in the 288 agents of security forces and bodies that have been injured in the riots of recent days. One of them is in a very serious condition after receiving a stone in the head.

But Casado has not been able to fulfill his agenda, since he has been prevented from entering the Superior Police Headquarters. As this newspaper has learned, Eduardo Bolaños, director of the Cabinet of the president of the PP of Catalonia (Alejandro Fernández) contacted yesterday with Mónica Lafuente, director of the Cabinet of the Government delegate in Catalonia, Teresa Cunillera, to arrange the visit from Married to the police headquarters. According to the 'popular', Lafuente "gave the ok", verbally, for party representatives to access the building. After that, Bolaños sent by email the list of people who were going to enter along with Pablo Casado.

After these procedures, the PP announced in a statement, at 8.39 on Monday, that Pablo Casado would visit at 13.30 the Police Headquarters on the Via Laietana of Barcelona. Less than an hour later, after 9:00, the 'popular' received a call from the Government Delegation to rectify and deny them entry.

"We have been told that it would not be possible, without further explanation," they complain in Genoa. "But they have not let us cross the fence to greet the policemen who were abroad", also "without explanation" by the Cunillera team, they insist. The agents have given them the reason for the absence of the chief commissioner, who was with the president of the government in office. "But it is not the fault of the police. They receive orders." Some have come, motu proprio, to complete Casado.

Interior frames the 'door slam' to Casado in normal. "The protocol that follows is always the same, the parties have never been authorized to enter headquarters or delegations," they say in the Ministry. From the department that Fernando Grande-Marlaska directs, according to Europa Press, it has been added that visits cannot interrupt the daily operation of police units and that the protocol requires "political neutrality".

It should be remembered that Pedro Sánchez has attended the Superior Police Headquarters of Catalonia, as well as visiting the injured agents in the Sagrat Cor and Sant Pau hospitals. And that, for the PP, means that the socialist candidate always goes to areas in trouble "to rebuild" Casado. "Canary Islands (due to the serious fire in Gran Canaria), Baleares and Murcia (cold drop) ... and now also Barcelona," they affirm. Married had announced his visit before.

The PP candidate has made statements to the media next to the security fence of the police headquarters. There he has demanded the Government "to put in place the necessary legislative measures so that the police have sufficient material means to be able to carry out their work." "There is no appeal to dialogue but to concord, there is no appeal to negotiation, but to law and order," he added.

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