Spain working hard against Catalan sovereignty process

Spain's intelligence agency, the National Intelligence Centre (CNI), is infiltrating Catalan pro-independence organisations, releasing provocative disinformation and dossiers to the mass media, working to break up the Catalan sovereignty process.

It does so stealthily, trying to go unnoticed, but there are already several organisations and individuals who have found themselves in odd situations, with information leaks, people with bizarre profiles approaching the organisations and suddenly disappearing again without any rhyme or reason, and negative disinformation reaching the mass media.

There are already many journalists and editors receiving information that can only have been leaked by insiders. Most information is used with intent to create fear, uncertainty and doubt, generating artificial tension, and especially physical and social insecurity, trying to disrupt the process towards a Catalan sovereign state from the inside.


The purpose is to prevent hope for what has so far been an increasing majority, attempting to break the movement and to prevent people from seeing themselves reflected in a process towards their own state. Spain knows that only with foul play, provoking internal conflict and chaos, can it stop the Catalan process towards a state of its own.

Manuel Millan Mestre, a former Spanish governing Popular Party politician and a journalist has confirmed on local TV channel 8TV the foul play against Catalonia. “I, who am not in favour of independence, would not have imagined it” ... “that Spanish foul play to end the sovereignty process is increasingly evident”, and has talked about conspiracies to prevent certain cases being brought before the courts by the Catalan national police force (Mossos d'Esquadra), cases proving that Spain is not looking for dialogue but rather to defeat the process.

A recent espionage scandal in Catalonia is in the hands of the Spanish police, instead of the Catalan force as would normally be the case. After reports of dossiers being traded by a private detective agency broke (one of the ringleaders had also been a member of the CNI), it was necessary to carry out a controlled “blow up”, above all to prevent that the whole process coming into the hands of the Catalan police.

Two Vice-Presidents of the Catalan Government have lodged complaints of illegal surveillance but the courts have refused to admit the case. Despite the fact that the leaks suggest snoops dealing in dossiers in Catalonia, the judges will not admit the accusations. It is truly shocking how the justice system is being used against Catalonia.

Certain mass media have turned leaked misinformation into shoddy headlines for their own interests. Media that talk of the snooping by the Director of Prisons Xavier Martorell, but that fail to mention the faking of votes at the Barcelona Chamber of Commerce, or others who speak of misappropriation of funds for the catering at the foundation of the pro-independence Catalan National Assembly are examples that certain media have fallen for assumed leaks or that take advantage of misinformation that comes directly from the very “sewers” of the central State.

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