Edouard Sallent, The former chief commissioner of the Mossos d’Esquadra, dismissed on Monday for the operation deployed during the escape of Carles Puigdemont, has been appointed head of the southern metropolitan police region of Barcelona, as reported by the police in a statement this Thursday.
Sallent will replace Commissioner Miquel Esquius at the head of the Metropolitan Police Region of Barcelona South. In addition, the major of the Mossos d’Esquadra, Josep Lluís Trapero, appointed on Monday as director general of the police, decided that Commissioner Rosa Bosch, who was number 2 of the Prefecture, would be transferred to the General Commission of Inspection and Evaluation, a position he held after being dismissed from his position as head of the body in 2021.
Sallent said on August 9, during a nearly three-hour appearance before the media, that They believed in the former president’s “will” to enter parliament attend the inauguration and repeatedly denied a possible pact between Puigdemont, his entourage and the Catalan police: “We are not a patriotic police.” They also admitted that they did not realize in time that their own agents “had taken a day off to help Puigdemont.”
Three police officers provisionally suspended
While the research continuesHow the Puigdemont escape began, Three officers have been provisionally suspended for their alleged involvement in the escape until “everything that happened is verified.” The Catalan police, already criticized for their role in the 2017 secession attempt, recently admitted in a report that they made mistakes in the plan to arrest the former Catalan president.
“It’s a shame for everyone,” said sources from Mossos, astonished that a force of 300 police officers failed to arrest Puigdemont. According to all the sources consulted, this is the most serious crisis that the Regional Police has experienced since the events of the 1-O referendum.
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