Trias considers that the PSOE was behind the Tejero coup d'état

The former mayor of Barcelona and current leader of Junts in the City Council, Xavier Trias, maintained this Monday that “the PSOE was behind” the 23-F. “No one can believe that this was a coup d'état by Mr. Tejero.”

“Maybe there are still some innocent people who believe that. I think the socialists were behind. They will say that I am old, but it is evident,” he insisted.

Trias has considered that the failed coup d'état was carried out to “stop autonomous development, by changing the Government and approving the LOAPA”, the (Organic Law of Harmonization of the Autonomous Process).

The Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, has refuted that Trias' statements “have no historical or factual basis”. “The socialist deputies were hostages, like all the deputies of Congress, in that coup d'état of February 23,” he added.

The leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, has demanded that Trias rectify. “It is a totally unfortunate, meaningless and painful statement for socialists, who have always fought for democracy in this country,” he said.

The assertions of the former nationalist mayor of Barcelona come months after other controversial demonstrations by Trias after losing the Mayor's Office of Barcelona despite having won the elections thanks to the pact between the PP and the PSC. “Fuck them, fuck them, fuck them,” Trias then exploded to show his disagreement with the constitutionalist operation that deprived him of the rod of command.