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The Civil Guard warns in one of its reports to the National Court of the danger of "uncontrolled elements." In a detailed report on the historical activities of the self-appointed Defense Committees of the Republic ( CDR ), the specialists of the Armed Institute conclude: "The product of discontent is not ruled out that uncontrolled elements and outside the supervision or direction of organizations could perform actions violent, sabotage or destabilizing of greater intensity or danger than those carried out so far, as would be shown in the proceedings to which this report accompanies ".

In their report, agents prepare a chronology of the creation and actions of the CDR. They ensure that the current committees are the heirs of the "Referendum Defense Committees." According to the Civil Guard, the CDR "has as main objective to maintain the agitation and mobilization of part of the population in Catalonia, with the purpose of preventing the free exercise of rights in accordance with current legislation, as well as impose a law on margin of the Constitution ".

In this report, incorporated into the summary instructed by the National Court in the framework of the Judas operation, specialists remember that these committees were born to prevent the execution of judicial decisions and the actions of the Security Forces.

They came to face "physically these to prevent their functions." "They have maintained their activity since then, carrying out acts on an internal level, such as assemblies, mobilizations mainly in favor of imprisoned politicians, and actions on designated dates, such as October 1 or November 8, consisting of not few occasions in highway cuts. "

Detail of one of the weapons found in the records, in the 'Judas operation'.

The Civil Guard notes that the composition or "militancy" within the different CDRs is not homogeneous. They are integrated "by a wide spectrum of sensitivities and currents within Catalan separatism." Of course, they already warn that both the theoretical conception and the control of these CDRs "come mainly from the movements that make up the CUP".

This report indicates that the total number of currently active CDRs, as well as the global number of members, is unknown. However, yes adventure: "It will surely exceed several thousand." The activity of the CDR decreased to gain more strength after the sentence of the process.

According to these analysts, "there would seem to be a certain discontent and discouragement among its members, given that the results of the mobilizations they carry out would not be expected as they would feel disappointed by the independentist political leaders, whom they would accuse of not doing anything to achieve independence, "adds the report included in the summary. The Civil Guard also issued a complete report on the material intervened to the detainees and whether it was used to manufacture explosives.

In the report, "the procedures for obtaining, as well as the substances necessary for this, of different explosive substances that can be manufactured by those investigated, based on their disposition of their precursors" have been described.

From the analysis of the material and the quantities intervened to the members of the CoR "it is interpreted that they would be trying to produce different substances, whose procedures could have been obtained through open or manual sources with relative ease".

Detail of a gun found in the records, in the 'Judas operation'.

"Based on the integration of the different procedures with the data in the investigation, different degrees of probability of the explosive substances that could be synthesized are investigated."

One of the products that most likely would be trying to make is termite. First, because of the simplicity of the process and, secondly, "because they have all the necessary precursors." Termite can be very useful to carry out sabotage, since it is a substance capable of melting metals easily.

It is also very possible that the investigated fabric was trying to produce "nitrocellulose and picric acid". The intentions of the detainees were reflected in handwritten notes "recovered from the garbage of one of the investigated, along with the chloratite and the tetralite," the report said.

With regard to nitrocellulose and picric acid, another important factor that would support the hypothesis of its synthesis is that those investigated have all the necessary precursors, together with the relative ease of both processes. With picric acid can be obtained by a very simple process ammonium picrate, which is a more stable explosive. That is why it is relevant for the Civil Guard that one of the detainees had acquired 25 liters of ammonia.

Detail of the interior of one of the registered addresses in the 'Judas operation'.

With regard to chloratite, experts conclude that there is also a high percentage of possibilities of trying to manufacture it. "It can be obtained by a very simple method from potassium chlorate." Although, according to the data in the investigation, at the moment, they would not have all the precursors to obtain this chlorate, "these are very accessible substances in the licit market, such as bleach and potassium chloride".

It is less likely for researchers that those investigated intended to make tetralite, "whose synthesis at the moment is not considered as feasible, since it is not clear that those investigated have one of all the precursor substances."

The same is true about TATP - acetone peroxide. Those investigated had virtually all precursor substances - except acetone and hydrogen peroxide. In addition, this explosive is highly unstable and less dangerous alternatives have been addressed in this report.

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