• News Joan Laporta signs Ferran López, number two of the Mossos, as head of security for Barça

Affable.

With left hand.

Able to have a wine with his staunch 'meringues enemies.

But, above all, a man of consensus in the most difficult part, in the police.

Jealousy and grudges between police forces are a classic.

But if you introduce the political situation in Catalonia to that complicated seasoning, the 'concoction' is clearly inedible.

If something can be said about

Ferrán López, Barcelona's new head of security, it

is that he is a wood (Mossos) from head to toe, accustomed to management, with command capacity and respect among a body with a high index of politicization, with a powerful sector oriented towards independence.

He has almost always danced with the ugliest.

But, without a doubt, its key moment was, when the Government of

Mariano Rajoy

took a historic step, the application of 155 and the intervention of an autonomous community in the face of the challenge that the rupture of the State was being raised.

And at that time, the Executive chose a man who had always raised suspicions, López, a commissioner of the Mossos who had always been in the shadow of Major

José Lluis Trapero

.

López - a man of dialogue and consensus - had become the police command that served to temper many bagpipes, to calm the situations that the imperious Trapero imposed, when the situations were the most tense among the State security forces.

And López had and has that necessary left and right hand.

But that closeness to Trapero and the behavior of the Mossos, highly questioned from the Ministry of the Interior on the occasion of October 1, aroused suspicions about the figure of Ferrán López, a man who has practically developed his entire police career in this autonomous body since birth.

And he gets along well with the PP.

And he also gets along well with the PSOE (some say even better).

And it maintains good relations with those who govern politics in Catalonia.

And I say that he had to dance with the ugliest because taking command of the police with 155 when the Police and Civil Guard relations were less than 0, it seemed an impossible mission.

But the election, which was notified to him by the then Secretary of State for Security,

José Antonio Nieto

, was neither free nor random.

López was known in Madrid, in all Madrid areas.

They not only opened the doors to him with a certain tranquility in the Police but also, although, a little less, in the Civil Guard.

But, in addition, he had a network of friends / relationships woven in the judicial and prosecutorial world that was key.

His relations with Colonel

Pérez de los Cobos

, in charge of the Interior for the security management of October 1, were very difficult.

Even in the statements of both before the courts (they had to testify both in the 1-O process and in the Trapero case) the different ways of facing the most tense territorial situation that Spain has experienced in democracy were confirmed.

And he got a good grade.

And he broke free.

Because he took the reins of the Mossos after Rajoy approved the 155 and dismissed Trapero.

When 155 ended, he continued at least until his previous boss, Trapero, was acquitted by the National High Court, in a sentence not appealed by the Prosecutor's Office.

And at that moment, Trapero was restored to his position and López returned to where he was, to be the right hand and the man of temperance.

Little by little and step by step, Ferrán López came to recompose a situation at least civilized between bodies.

Even with the will of the general himself, he managed to calm enormous differences with the head of the Civil Guard in that area, General

Garrido

.

And much of this work is the silent work of Ferrán López, who intends to continue maintaining his 'contacts' with Madrid.

But, as they point out from their surroundings, he already needed to turn his life around completely, withdraw from the front line of politics and security, and try to rest / enjoy / work.

Because if Ferrán López had a passion for the Mossos, his more than passion for his Barça was not lagging behind.

His last act as command of the Mossos, attending together with Trapero the controversial act of destruction of weapons seized in Madrid to terrorists.

And there, both he and Trapero analyzed the political and police situation in Catalonia.

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