«A single or common address». This is what the Superior Prosecutor's Office of Catalonia considers of the sabotages committed by the groups of protesters called by the Defense Committees of the Republic (CDR) to make cuts on the train tracks to protest the ruling of the Supreme Court that sentenced for sedition to The independence leaders. On the basis of a complaint filed by Adif, the Prosecutor's Office has opened Investigative proceedings and has been officiated to the Mossos d'Esquadra to initiate "investigation procedures."

In this sense, as this newspaper has been able to know, the police have begun to view images of the numerous train tracks cuts of the weeks after the sentence was published, which coincided with the most violent protests, to try to identify Some of those who participated, as well as the degree of involvement in the placement of elements to prevent passage. In addition, the messages of convocation of these protests and the stations or points of the roads to which the activists went were analyzed, since they could be thought to generate a greater impact, of delays and cancellations, when placing the barricades.

For the moment, the reports available to the Public Ministry and the Mossos show that there could be "a single or common address in the reported sabotages", which would imply a high degree of organization in the protests. Although the researchers do not rule out any hypothesis, since the investigations are being initiated, what is clear is that there could be a structure behind with a defined command that would be distributed to the protesters to cause these cuts. Thus, it would not be a crime of damage, but a more serious situation. However, if there are identifications for specific facts, they could be referred to the corresponding territorial prosecutors.

The degree of organization in the protests also surprised the police who acted in Barcelona and other capitals during the riots the week after the sentence. According to police sources, the planning of barricades with lighted containers just where riot vans could go to the aid of other agents, as well as the use of radios to communicate between the leaders of some groups, instead of mobile phone, denotes Planning in street vandalism.

Adif reported almost 250 cuts of train tracks after sentencing. The president of Adif, Isabel Pardo de Vera, said that the company had to face additional costs to reinforce security in some sections and that they had to pay compensation for delays caused. In addition, they have noticed a decrease in the number of passengers. At the moment it is estimated that there is a cost exceeding 650,000 euros in damage to the railway infrastructure.

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