José Manuel Villarejo assured on Saturday that at the time he carried out “absolutely illegal” actions to stop the independence process. In an interview for TV3 on Saturday night, the controversial former National Police commissioner gave free rein to multiple theories aligned with the secessionist story, blamed several members of the former Popular Party government, explained his role in this plot and assured that “I would do it again”.
In this sense, the leader of Citizens in Catalonia, Carlos Carrizosa, criticized on Sunday, in the constitutional act ‘In defense of citizenship and democracy’, that this chain gives voice to Villarejo, and affirmed that TV3 has put the « red carpet to a corrupt official and professional blackmailer who is dedicated to destabilizing our democracy.
Villarejo explained in the interview that thanks to his maneuvers CiU went from 62 to 50 deputies in the Parliament in the 2012 elections, and affirmed that the general secretary of the Popular Party between 2008 and 2018, María Dolores de Cospedal, put him on the phone with Mariano Rajoy congratulated him on his work with praise such as “what a pity that they cannot find out what you have done.”
The former commissioner also explained that the National Intelligence Center (CNI) had a budget of between 7 and 8 million euros to pay pundits and generate states of opinion that would convince the audience of “how serious” it would be to separate from Spain. “I really don’t know if this money was ever used,” he acknowledged at the end.
He also assured that the former Minister of the Interior Jorge Fernández Díaz was the one who provided him with the information about the Pujol family’s money in Andorra, an action that, according to the former commissioner, Mariano Rajoy was aware of. «It is a real aberration to think that the CNI works within the law. Spies are there to spy », he defended.
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