The Civil Guard has concluded in a report sent to the National High Court that the Tactical Response Team (ERT), made up of radicalized members of the Committees for the Defense of the Republic (CDR), was
a criminal organization with terrorist purposes
that aimed to "the planning of the assault, occupation and defense of the Parliament of Catalonia" once the so-called 'D-day' arrived, for which they handled explosive substances.
In the report, dated May 2021 and based on the records carried out in September 2019 that concluded with nine detainees, the Civil Guard indicates that "the ERT fulfilled a fundamental task in planning the assault, occupation and defense of the Parliament of Catalonia , showing its nature as a criminal organization with a terrorist purpose of which it gathers all the elements ".
La Benemérita, whose report appears in the summary of the case --to which Europa Press has had access--, explains that "the organization enjoyed a high cohesion favored by the previous common membership of the CDR, which allowed all its members to pursue the same purpose in their actions, as well as share a relatively homogeneous ideological substrate favorable to obtaining Catalan independence through radical activism ".
The ERT was commissioned by the "clandestine collective called 'Catalan CNI'" to
participate in the assault on the Parliament on 'D-day'
, a date that the investigators have not been able to determine but which they suggest could have taken place after the sentence for the 1-O, in order to "produce a destabilizing effect in the Spanish State."
As part of the preparations for the seizure of the legislative headquarters, they were entrusted "to develop incendiary, deflagrant and explosive substances in order to carry out actions against different objectives that, in the end, would favor the task" and, for this, they did gathering "the necessary precursor agents, detailed manuals, data and correct handwritten formulations, and laboratory equipment necessary for the synthesis of explosive compounds."
According to the Civil Guard, "the group had a vocation of permanence in time, as evidenced by its constitution at the end of 2018 and the intense relations between its members until the moment of the arrests."
The detainees searched for information on Pablo Casado, official buildings and infrastructure
In its report, the Civil Guard assures that the defendants Alexis C., Germinal T., Esther G., Rafael Joaquín D. and Sonia P. "planned" through the messaging application Signal "the carrying out of various violent actions" against the Parliament of Catalonia, the Ministry of the Interior or Justice, the corps barracks and even the Amazon logistics center in Martorelles (Barcelona).
The body deduces it from the "analysis of the intervened evidence" during the search of Alexis C.'s home, in which they obtained "conclusive information on his activities aimed at the prior recognition and surveillance of possible objectives on which to carry out actions or attempt". In fact,
three of those investigated had traveled to the location of some of the targets selected to
carry out
"attacks"
with the aim of "carrying out a reconnaissance and taking photographs of those points."
In the images intervened by the Civil Guard, certain aspects of the facilities are collected, such as accesses, surveillance cameras or the location of electrical towers.
Photographs of the multinational railway company ALSTOM in Santa Perpetua de la Mogoda (Barcelona), the photovoltaic plant located in the Can Baliarda industrial estate in Sant Fost de Campsentelles (Barcelona), the industrial machinery company ATFE, in the same municipality, and several High voltage towers.
The Civil Guard also found maps of communication routes and railway stations where Repsol gas stations and an Endesa transformation center had been marked as points of interest.
At the same time, during the search at the home of the investigated Jordi Ros, the armed institute intervened information on other "specific objectives" that the CDRs "would have selected to carry out their attacks", such as
the Government Delegation in Barcelona or the Prosecutor's Office of the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia.
Among these locations, "evidence" was also found that they had planned to attack the headquarters of the Barcelona Civil Guard Command Headquarters in Sant Andreu de la Barca, the Barcelona Naval Command and the Barcelona Military Government, in addition to against members, vehicles and facilities of the Security Forces and Bodies.
"The information obtained allows us to corroborate that Jordi Ros and other members of the organization would have carried out preparatory acts, consisting of a task of recognition of objectives, surveillance and control of police facilities, taking photographs and videos of the predetermined objectives," concludes the report .
The Civil Guard also points out that Jordi Ros would have carried out different
searches on the internet about people linked to political parties opposed to independence in order
to allegedly commit an "action" against them.
Among the people he looked for are the president of the PP, Pablo Casado, the councilor of the Barcelona City Council Manuel Valls (BCNxCanvi), the mayor of Sabadell, Marta Farrés (PSC), the mayor of the same municipality Marta Morell (Podem), the former deputy of the PP in the Parliament Joan López, the former secretary general of Cs José Manuel Villegas, the ex-deputy in Congress Francisco Aranda (PSC) and a mayor of the BRIMO of the Mossos d'Esquadra.
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