• Courts The City Council of Xavier Trias paid almost 500,000 euros to a producer linked to '3%'

Political storm for the investigation opened in the National Court for the almost half a million euros that the municipal government of Xavier Trias, current candidate of JxCat to the Mayor of Barcelona, paid between 2011 and 2015 to the production company Triacom, linked to the illegal financing of CDC. The Popular Party candidate in Barcelona, Daniel Sirera, urged Trias to clarify "if he was the mayor of 3%" and was concerned about the fate of this half million euros since it allegedly served "to pay for separatist propaganda".

The Mossos d'Esquadra and the Civil Guard analyze numerous documentation requested by the court to the City Council of Barcelona on these payments to Triacom during the time when Trias was mayor of the city. Among the requested documentation are the files on the advertising campaign of emergency telephones 010 in 2012 or radio and audiovisual microspaces of Smart City in 2014 and 2015. He also paid the production company 118,580 euros in 2014 for "the acquisition of the intellectual property rights of the work 'El cas dels Catalans'. It is a documentary about the narratives of Francesc de Castellví during the War of the Spanish Succession, highlighting the defeat of 1714 on its 300th anniversary, and that Triacom produced together with TV3 and the Xarxa de Comunicació Local.

Daniel Sirera said that "surely, its president, Laura Borràs, and Carles Puigdemont will be proud of Trias but the people of Barcelona deserve to know what he did with our money." In addition, he added that "Barcelona does not deserve a Mayor who, instead of clarifying things, hides them" and remarked that "I am little concerned that Trias hides the acronyms of Borras and Puigdemont in his ballots, what the people of Barcelona need to know is if Trias was the mayor of 3% as it seems that the investigations of the Mossos d'Esquadra point ".

Vox proposes an audit

For his part, the candidate for mayor of Barcelona for Vox, Gonzalo de Oro, said in statements to this media that "we are not surprised at all by the investigation of the National Court to Trías. From Vox we have been denouncing for years the corruption entrenched in our political class that has turned Catalonia into one of the most corrupt regions in Europe according to the European Union. "Trias belongs to the 3% party, which apparently was well over 3%. But it is also the party of the Pujol plot, which we still do not know what economic scope it has, but it seems that of record, "added the Vox candidate.

However, the Gonzalo de Oro went further and remarked that "in all cases of corruption in Catalonia separatist parties appear, but also left-wing. And we are talking about serious cases such as Palau, Casinos, ITV, Banca Catalana, Innova, Pallerols, FFCC, Port Vell, Pretoria, etc. The list is endless because in Catalonia and Barcelona, corruption is institutionalized." Therefore, he stressed that "n the city council of Barcelona we have been more than 40 years in which the parties of Trías, Collboni and Colau are distributed the cake" t considers "necessary a change in the mayor's office and that an opposition is made without mercy for the corrupt that must begin with a detailed audit" to "investigate every last penny stolen".

  • Xavier Trias
  • Mossos d'Esquadra
  • Laura Borràs
  • Carles Puigdemont
  • Barcelona
  • Civil Guard
  • PP
  • CDC
  • National Court

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