Junts and ERC will ask that the former CNI director return to Congress to explain the alleged payments to the Ripoll’s magnet | Spain

Junts per Catalunya and Esquerra Republicana will ask to appear again, in the Congress of Deputies, the former director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) Félix Sanz Roldán to clarify the supposed payments of the Secret Service To Ripoll’s magnet, Abdelbaki is Sattyconsidered the brain of the attacks of Barcelona and Cambrils of August 17, 2017. The newspaper ABC He has revealed this Wednesday, citing sources of intelligence, that the CNI paid 500 euros per month to is Satty as confidant until the date of the attacks. This fact contrasts with the information provided by Sanz Roldán during his appearance in the Investigation Commission on 17-A, last November, when He affirmed that the magnet « never » was « collaborator or informant of the CNI ».

According to the information published by ABCGirona’s CNI agent who controlled Es Satty visited him periodically to meet him and pay him 500 euros. In all that time, which allegedly lasted until the date of the attacks, did not detect any radicalization sign or appreciate that Is Satty, who exercised as a magnet in the town of Ripoll (Girona), had any intention to commit an attack. The magnet, meanwhile, was convincing a group of young people from the town, united by ties of blood and friendship, of committing a great attack with bombs in Barcelona in the name of Islamic State. The fortuitous explosion of the Alcanar House (Tarragona) where the explosives stored, in which he died is Satty, led the group to improvise and to undertake the massive outrage of the Rambla de Barcelona and the subsequent attack on the Paseo Marítimo de Cambrils (Tarragona).

The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has avoided confirming or denying the information, which she has claimed to ignore. In a joint press conference with the UN Deputy Secretary of the Peace Operations of the UN, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Robles has limited himself to pointing out that « everything that refers to the terrible attacks » of the Ramblas and Cambrils was already examined by a judge « and in a democratic state who determine the responsibilities is the judges. » Robles, whose department depends on the Secret Service, has expressed its « maximum respect for the work carried out by the CNI » and stressed that the intelligence center « always complies with the legality. » SOURCES OF THE CNI have been referred to the statements of the Minister of Defense.

Although the revelations do not support the theory of the conspiracy promoted, among others, by Junts per Catalunya (which suggests that the State knew the plans of the Ripoll’s cell and did nothing to prevent them), they do represent a script turn in the relations between the CNI and it is Satty. What was known so far, according to the declassified documentation contributed to the Congress, is that agents of the Center visited the magnet while imprisoning, in the Castellón prison, for a crime of drug trafficking. Between March and April 2014, on dates very close to its release, Three interviews occurred that they intended to capture Es Satty as an anti -terrorism source.

The minutes of these meetings, however, reveal that lThe agents did not grant « no reliability and trust » A Es Satty, among other things for his tendency to « deception » and for the very scarce information he had contributed. Even so, on the last visit, days before they were released, they provided a contact number « in case you had something to tell » later. After being released, the magnet “maintained some sporadic telephone contact” with center staff, according to Sanz Roldán in 2018, in the commission of official secrets of the Congress whose content was known a few months ago, within the framework of the declassification of papers of the Investigation Commission.

The former CNI director came to say, in 2018that the lack of reliability of Es Satty led the body to rule out its capture as a source. And in his November appearance he added that it was Satty, it had not been « collaborator or informant » of the center beyond the interviews and specific contacts when leaving prison. Sanz Roldán did not provide the deputies revealed by ABCalthough its appearance occurred before the Government declassified the documentation on the case, so it was limited by the obligation to keep secret.

Declassify new documents

The independence parties have shouted in the sky upon hearing the existence of payments to the magnet and have announced a battery of requests in the Investigation Commission. They will ask, at the outset, a new appearance of the former director of the CNI, but also the declassification of more documents and, especially, of the reports prepared by the agent who controlled It’s Satty and for its head of the Girona office, as Fuentes of both matches have confirmed to the newspaper. Junts, in fact, wants the new documents to first be declassified so that possible appearing parties (Sanz Roldán, but also those responsible for follow -up is Satty) can answer all questions.

ERC spokesman in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has loaded against the CNI: « They were not only useless, but they were also negligent and irresponsible absolute. » Rufián has denounced that the attacks of 17-A, which left 17 deaths and more than 300 injured, “ended up indirectly financing with public money”, referring to the alleged monthly allocation reserved for the magnet. Juns spokesman, Josep Rius, has taken advantage of for his part to attack the Catalan president, Salvador Illa, for making a “butler” of the PSOE and refusing to “be able to know the truth of 17-A”.