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The macro-research conducted by the National Court reveals that the members of the Defense Committees of the Republic ( CDR ) "promptly reported" their strategy and main steps to the former Catalan president escaped Carles Puigdemont.

According to sources of the investigation to EL MUNDO, the analysis of the telephone communications intervened to the radicals - carried out by the Court of Instruction number 6 of the National Court, in coordination with the Prosecutor's Office and the Civil Guard - concludes that the CDR they gave a precise and constant account to the former Catalan president who fled from Spanish Justice in the Belgian town of Waterloo.

The researchers suspect that the CDRs followed a "clear policy guideline" to act in an "organized and coordinated" manner. This conclusion has been reached after the analysis of the telephone punctures carried out on those investigated to prepare terrorist actions on the occasion of the notification of the judgment of the process by the Supreme Court.

In this sense, during the last months, the investigated CDRs made several references to the communications they had with Puigdemont, who, according to themselves, were informing their plans to Waterloo.

Criminal liability

For this reason, the Court is currently studying the extent of the eventual criminal responsibility of the former president in these events. The Supreme Court has already issued a new international arrest warrant for the crimes of sedition and embezzlement of public flows.

As this newspaper revealed a few days ago, the investigations have discovered that the CDRs used what they called a "secure telephone terminal" for their conversations with the former Catalan president . The informing sources explain that, despite the continuous allusions to Puigdemont, no direct conversation with him has been recorded.

However, according to this diairo sources close to the investigation assure, the radicals exchanged with each other the content of the conversations they had with Puigdemont, so the National Court takes for granted the existence of a "political connection" with the group Terrorist, who planned, among other actions, to fly a communications or high-voltage tower in the province of Barcelona after the failure of the process .

In the so-called telephone punctures it was detected that members of the CDR were making repeated calls to Belgium. The conversations with Puigdemont were implemented through a private telephone that was not registered in the name of any of the members of the known as ERT (Tactical Response Team), the most radical and violent faction of the CDRs, who were arrested on last September.

A year and a half of research

There is a circumstance that the Hearing has been investigating for more than a year and a half the cells that integrate the CDR in various related procedures.

It should be remembered that at least two of those investigated have already confessed that they moved to Belgium to meet with Puigdemont and that the prison cars issued by Judge Manuel García Castellón against the members of the ERT indicated that this group "organized, planned and executed "a" secret meeting in itinere "with the ex- president's sister escaped to deliver sensitive documentation and establish" secure communications "with him. The instructor dated that meeting on September 15, 2018.

In parallel, the investigation has detected the connection of the CDRs with the one known as the CNI Catalan, an agency dependent on the Catalan Generalitat, which, in the opinion of the researchers, also supervised and supervised the actions of the radicals.

In addition, along with Cesicat , the National Court also suspects the creation of a second Catalan CNI formed by a group of people from the independentist environment, outside the Generalitat, but in coordination with it.

For its part, the Brussels Public Prosecutor's Office plans to ask the Belgian Justice to execute the Euro-order issued by Spain against Puigdemont and deliver the Catalan politician for sedition and embezzlement to Judge Pablo Llarena, reports Beatriz Ríos .

As confirmed by Carles Puigdemont's lawyer in Belgium, Paul Bekaert , before the closed-door hearing in the Council Chamber - first instance court of Brussels - that will examine the case on Tuesday. "They ask for extradition for the two crimes," Bekaert said.

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