Manuel Marraco Madrid

Madrid

Updated Tuesday, March 5, 2024-15:01

The National Court will investigate the possible participation of Russian spies in the

process

.

The magistrate responsible for the

Tsunami case

,

Manuel García-Castellón

, thus agrees to the request of two police officers appearing as accusations.

The two agents, injured in the incidents following the convictions of the

process

, demanded that the court investigate the possibility that "Russian spies experts in sabotage and murder" visited Barcelona between 2014 and 2019, supposedly to favor the independence process.

In the order issued this Tuesday, the judge orders the General Information Commissariat of the National Police to report "on the extremes interested" by the agents.

The letter from the Fuster Fabra Abogados firm representing the police provided various press information about the visits to Catalonia of seven members of the GRU, the Russian military intelligence service.

Their request consisted of collecting possible reports on the matter that the Police had made, so that they could be contributed to the cause of

Democratic Tsunami

.

The request did not include the

ex novo

preparation of reports on the matter, so for the moment the judicial decision is limited to providing what has already been investigated in this regard.

In reality, the judge already knows the matter.

In 2019, García-Castellón opened an investigation into the presence in Spain of a Russian spy who was in Catalonia in the days before the illegal referendum on October 1.

This was

Sergey Fedotov

, a high-ranking officer in the military intelligence services related, for example, to actions such as the attempted assassination of former Russian spy

Sergei Skripal

in

London

.

The investigation was part of a broader case investigating Russian espionage activities in Spain aimed at politically destabilizing the country and promoting the independence of Catalonia.

With his decision today, the judge opens the way to resume the matter, this time within the context of the

Democratic Tsunami

case .