Carles Puigdemont demands that the Generalitat provide an "urgent" escort by the Mossos d'Esquadra in the face of "the increased level of danger and risk"

The head of Carles Puigdemont's office has called on the Generalitat to assign an escort service from the Mossos d'Esquadra, “immediately” and “as a matter of urgency”, to the former Catalan president after having detected “an increase in level of danger and risk to his person for a few weeks now.

In a letter addressed to the Department of the Interior, Josep Lluís Alay recalls that, since July 2018, his office has asked the Government “to fulfill this responsibility without success” and “with silence as a response.”. In addition, he details that in January 2022 he also wrote a letter to the general director of the regional police with the same result..

Condemns Buch and Escola

Precisely, two months ago, former counselor Miquel Buch was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and 20 years of disqualification for committing a crime of prevarication and another of embezzlement by hiring a Mossos sergeant as an advisor on security systems. from the Department of the Interior to later be assigned to Belgium, where he developed “protection and security functions” for Puigdemont for more than half a year..

The Barcelona Court also sentenced Lluís Escolà, the police officer who collaborated with the leader of Junts per Catalunya in his escape, to four years in prison and 19 years of disqualification and whom Buch would end up appointing as advisor in July 2018, already with Quim Torra as president of the Generalitat after lifting article 155 of the Constitution by which Catalan autonomy was intervened in October 2017.

Both Buch and Escolà would be exonerated from their sentences thanks to the amnesty agreed by the PSOE with Esquerra Republicana and JxCat and whose bill the socialists have registered alone this afternoon in the Congress of Deputies. Alay could also benefit from the measure of grace in the three judicial processes that affect him: the Voloh case, the Tsunami Democràtic case and an accusation of alleged embezzlement for having used public funds on a trip, in 2018, as an observer of the independence referendum. of New Caledonia (overseas community of the French Republic).