• The witness Perez de los Cobos: "If I had had command over the Mossos my first decision would have been to remove Trapero"
  • The defendant. Trapero describes as "outrageous" the resolution of the Parliament that launched the 'process'
  • The trial. Judgment aa Trapero: key piece in the sedition or command of the Mossos who asked to stop the 1-0

The defense Josep Lluís Trapero has questioned Tuesday the colonel of the Civil Guard Diego Pérez de los Cobos , the main witness in the trial that is followed in the National Court against the eldest of the Mossos. On Monday, for almost four hours, the one sent by Interior to coordinate the device against the 1-O was describing a Trapero aligned with the Government and reluctant to any kind of collaboration.

This Tuesday, Trapero's lawyer closed the interrogation by questioning not specific points - he had done it throughout the morning - but the complete validity of Pérez de los Cobos's testimony. Along the same lines has been the following question: why did he not transfer to the judge or the prosecutor the resistance to collaborate that he perceived in Trapero. Because it was not necessary, the witness replied: it was obvious and they saw it themselves.

"With this I am finishing. Do you have any kind of resentment or animosity regarding Mr. Trapero for that rejection he showed to the coordination and for what happened in the Prosecutor's Office those first days of September 20 and 21?" lawyer Olga Tubau . "None" has been the answer. The lawyer referred to the first meeting between the two at the headquarters of the Public Ministry, in which Trapero misapplied the appointment of a coordinator.

In the last questions to Pérez de los Cobos, the lawyer has also questioned the striking statement on Monday that if he had had command instead of just coordinating the operation, he would have removed Trapero from the operational direction. "Not having the command, why didn't he ask the superior prosecutor or the magistrate to remove Trapero from that device?" "Nor am I who to say it. I would have made that decision, but another thing is to interfere in decisions of the Prosecutor and the magistrate."

The appearance of the witness has concluded with a reference to the sentence that already exists on the process . "Already the last one, both in his statement yesterday [this Monday] to questions from the prosecutor and today [this Tuesday] has made some references to the Supreme Court ruling. Do you think that sentence comes to assess Mr. Trapero's participation in the facts that were prosecuted? "

The formally correct answer was no, but Pérez de los Cobos could not speak because the president of the court, Concepción Espejel, has declared the question inadmissible. The Supreme Court ruling does not bind in the part of proven facts to the Court of the Hearing, but it is obvious that it has influence. There it was said that the Mossos simulated a performance to prevent 1-O. The Hearing must say if that action was criminal and if the person responsible was the biggest Ragman.

To try to send an affirmative answer, the lawyer of the main defendant has included in that batch of last questions some that tried to move Trapero away from the most flagrant cases of mossos collaboration with the voters. He recalled that he ordered to "immediately" separate a couple whom the television images showed "making jokes" with those present at the polling station. And that none of the 17,000 mossos or their unions reported receiving "an illegal or illegal or irregular order by October 1".

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