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The fan phenomenon can engulf the subject they worship. From an icon of independence to a defeated pawn. Josep Lluís Trapero (56) has been the latest victim of the sovereign process when four days ago the Catalan Ministry of the Interior defected him from his post as major of the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police)

although the official version affirms that it is "a generational change", according to the Minister of the Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena.

That handsome man who starred in some limited edition chocolates from the oldest bakery in Catalonia (Escribà) with his effigy dressed as Superman and the Trap-Hero pun and whose face was printed on T-shirts with his lapidary phrase

(hodgepodge of Spanish and Catalan) that emerged at the press conference after the attack on Barcelona's Ramblas on August 17, 2017, in which she refused to speak Cervantes' language at the request of a Dutch journalist to He left the place angry, he is already part of the collective imagination of the process.

Despite having politicized the attack, several foreign newspapers

for having been the mastermind of the operation that served to capture the leaders of the attack in Barcelona and Cambrils (Tarragona).

Puigdemont with Trapero, then a major of the MossosAFP

When Carles Puigdemont appointed him mayor, the highest position in the Mossos that had been forgotten for a decade, the then president of the Generalitat thought he had an unwavering ally.

But it was an optical illusion.

His impetus to create an independent state in the form of a republic led the Catalan boss to carry out the referendum of 1-0 of 2017 by which Trapero was accused of inaction to favor his supporter who, days later, promulgated the Unilateral Declaration of Independence of Catalonia (DUI) without it having legal validity.

Article 155 was applied, whereby Puigdemont was removed from power and Trapero testified at the National High Court for an alleged crime of rebellion that was later reduced to sedition.

OSTRACISM

Those of PdeCat and the CUP were astonished.

Their squire-patrolman had betrayed them.

In the statement, Trapero confessed that he had everything prepared to arrest Puigdemont, Junqueras and the rest of the group.

Thus, he avoided facing an 11-year sentence, but the Spanish Government dismissed him from office.

Three years of ostracism in which he did office work

But revenge is a dish that is served cold and the independentistas of the court of Pere Aragonès, instead of making the wave, they dragged him towards the current to finalize him definitively.

Luckily Josep Lluís Trapero has in his family the best protection he could wish for. Although being a father was not among his plans, with his lifelong partner, Sonia Jiménez (45), he had a beautiful girl named María in 2019 who has become his light. In difficult moments he had several shoulders to cry on (brother, sister and close friends) but, without a doubt, his mother Laura was the engine that gave energy to

( Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) to which Manuel Castells and his wife, Emma Kiselyova, have been linked and obtain a postgraduate degree in Public Security. Also, he studied a course at the FBI.

For this son of a taxi driver from Valladolid who is familiarly called José and who had always spoken in Spanish, Santa Coloma de Gramanet (Barcelona) is the cradle of his heart even though he now lives in

, Sant Cugat del Vallés, the third largest municipality rich in the country after Pozuelo de Alarcón and Boadilla del Monte. Being born into a family from Charnega and working class prints character. As a child it

because a neighbor asked him to take care of the facade of a recently painted building and his father taught him the value of the culture of effort and that has always led him to the letter although his parent passed away twelve years ago.

He has great affection for the garden of Vilafranca del Penedés inherited from his father, where he entertains himself by growing vegetables.

That's where time stops.

Relaxation is also found in the notes of Joan Manuel Serrat that have penetrated him so deeply that he did not hesitate to play

guitar

in Cadaqués (Girona) together with Puigdemont, Marcela Topor and Joan Laporta who, incidentally, signed Ferran López last April (he succeeded Trapero after his dismissal and is also the son of a taxi driver based in Santa Coloma) and who recently had just terminated his contract.

How to lose your job and confidence

The family origins of Josep Lluís Trapero - the son of a taxi driver born in Valladolid - did not prevent him from reaching the top of the mossos, the Catalan autonomous police.

Puigdemont believed that he had an unwavering ally, but after his statement in the National High Court for his participation in the illegal independence referendum of 2017, Trapero lost his 'indepe' support.

After three years of ostracism doing office work, in 2020 he returned to his position as mayor of the mossos.

Until this week.

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