Unides Podem, Compromís and Esquerra Republicana have called for Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaka to appear in the Chamber of Deputies and Senate, while denouncing that he and the government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, “cannot continue to exercise their responsibilities”. , after information about the “infiltration” of a national police officer for two years was published in neighborhood and social movements in the city of Valencia.
The groups have registered various parliamentary initiatives to demand explanations from the Ministry of the Interior on the information published by La Directa, which reveals that an agent was “smuggled” for two years with a false identity in neighborhood movements in the Valencian neighborhood of Benimaclet, such as Cuidem Benimaclet, the Social Center Okupat Anarquista l’Horta (CSOA), Grama, La Garrofera and the Antifeixistes PV movement. The three political groups have asked to “clarify” these facts and the “reasons” that led to the decision to infiltrate a National Police agent “with public funds” into neighborhood and social movements “to spy on activists.” They criticized the fact that these acts “cannot be approved in a democracy” and demanded that those responsible “not go unpunished”. “This is unacceptable,” they declared. The Cuidem Benimaclet collective has called a press conference this Tuesday, attended by members of CSOA L’Horta, Cuidem Benimaclet and Alerta Solidària, to assess the facts.
Unides Podem trustee in Les Corts, Pilar Lima, has demanded that the government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, provide explanations on “why public funds have been used to spy on activists” and has questioned whether the activism “it is considered a hazard” because it “would be worrying if it were”. Government delegation sources have declined to provide an assessment of the complaint. For her part, the UP deputy for Castellón in the House of Representatives, Marisa Saavedra, has registered parliamentary questions in which she demands that Marlaska “know why this policeman infiltrated these groups”.
From Compromís, Congress spokeswoman Joan Baldoví assured that the situation called for Marlaska’s “immediate appearance” and in a statement indicated that it was incomprehensible “that the Interior Ministry encourages police infiltration into social movements , we cannot agree to this kind of action in a democracy”. Compromís’ trustee in Les Cortes, Papi Robles, a neighbor of Benimaclet, has described these practices as “dark and undemocratic”. “The police must guarantee the safety of the neighbors and not play spies with public funds within the social movements,” he said, while holding the central government accountable for “this unacceptable action”. In addition, the Senator of Compromís, Carles Mulet, has requested to appear before the Interior Committee of the Senate of Grande-Malaska; the infiltrated agent with a mistaken identity; the General Commissioner for Information, Eugenio Pereiro Blanco; the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Pérez Ruiz, and the Director General of Police, Francisco Pardo Piqueras, to explain the reason for the “massive police infiltration into neighborhood movements in Barcelona and Valencia for their criminalization”.
Finally, from the Esquerra Republicana del País Valencià (ERPV), they have put 46 questions to the government to ask them to explain the reasons for the “infiltration” and they have – together with the Republican faction of Congress – in addition to the request registered is a document that clarifies “the facts and reasons that have led the Ministry of the Interior to encourage this infiltration, belonging to the two previous ones between the pro-independence and anti-system Movements are added .” The deputy of Esquerra Republicana, Marta Rosique, has announced that she will travel to Valencia this Monday to try to contact the groups concerned and coordinate possible actions.
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