The Government of Aragonès begins the "battle" to expel the National Police from the Headquarters in Barcelona

• Interior The Government Delegation prevents the Parliament from visiting the works of the Police Headquarters due to job security

• Municipal The PSC supports ERC so that Sánchez evicts the Police Headquarters in Barcelona

The Government of Pere Aragonès has set its sights on the National Police Headquarters in Via Laietana, one of the most representative symbols of the State in Barcelona and which was, during the years of the independence process, the epicenter of numerous protests and clashes, such as the well-known

in 2019 after the sentence of the Supreme Court for sedition against the independence leaders.

Specifically, the new Minister of Justice, Social Rights and Memory,

assured that one of the "first battles" that the Generalitat will address in its meetings with the Government of Pedro Sánchez will be the transfer of this police building, which is currently reforms.

Ubasart assured that "it is not a new project, it is a project that has been limping for a long time" since his predecessor in office,

(JxCat) wanted to locate the headquarters of the

in the Via Laietana Headquarters.

Precisely, the current counselor told TV3 that with the implementation of the Historical Memory Law she opens the door to comply with this demand and for this reason she considers it essential to "recover" the Vía Laietana police station by claiming it from the Government.

In this sense, the Government requested the transfer of the building in the meetings of the bilateral commission with the Sánchez Executive.

However, the intention of Ubasart, who was general secretary of Podemos in Catalonia, could collide with his former partners of the 'commons'.

The Barcelona City Council, led by

, has been working for years to obtain the transfer of the current Police Headquarters by the State.

The councilor of the Ciutat Vella district,

, assured this medium that "we celebrate that for the first time the Generalitat speaks of a memorial space and not to take over the headquarters of the Democratic Memorial, as the Government said until now".

The councilor has already stated that the building must become "a memory facility, a place to repair reprisals, a dissemination center, a space where the archives of repression are kept," as well as creating a center that remembers what "the political repression, the Franco regime and also the torture that exists throughout the world".

During the 2019 incidents after the Supreme Court ruling, in which thousands of people protested in front of the Headquarters, the councilor requested the transfer of the Via Laietana Police since "it is not the ideal space" for the police station due to the inconvenience that residents and merchants in the area suffered from the clashes.

The Consistory is working on a project together with the city's historical memory entities to create a use plan for the building, although the file must first be finalized to convert it into a cultural asset of local interest in the city.

In this legislature, the PSC voted in favor, together with the pro-independence formations and the

, of an ERC proposal in the Barcelona City Council that urged the Government to vacate the current Jefatura.

In this way, the Barcelona City Council and the Generalitat compete to see who can score the goal of obtaining the cession of this building by the State less than half a year before the municipal elections are held.

For the moment, the Ministry of the Interior remains oblivious to this struggle.

A year ago, he ordered structural reforms at the Headquarters since it will continue to be the main headquarters of the Police in Barcelona as there are no "operational reasons" to proceed with its transfer.

Precisely, the president of the Justice Commission of the Parlament, the deputy of the Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC)

, requested by letter to the Government delegate in Catalonia,

, a joint visit to the dependencies of the Superior Headquarters Via Laietana Police.

The deputies believed that the reform, valued at nine million euros in several phases until 2025, carried out by the Ministry of the Interior could "spoil" some facilities that should be a "denunciation of torture".

Gay rejected the proposal for job security and because it is a work center and recalled that no one outside the work can enter, which affects the structure of the building and is developed with large scaffolding.

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