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The documentation on the Independence Left and the CDRs' vigilance includes photographs taken by militants
  • Direct reported on 10 October that the Spanish Ministry of the Interior has supervised 38 militants from the Independence Left and the CDRs. The Civil Guard and the Spanish Police, invoking the "fight against terrorism", have controlled 50 mobile phones and have carried out street tracking to militants, among others. The documentation reviewed by the journalists includes photographs taken by militants who were investigating through street tracking, with meetings, displacements and participation in mobilizations.
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On October 10, Gemma García and Jesús Rodríguez, journalists from Directo, reported the espionage of the Spanish Ministry of the Interior to militants from the Catalan countries. Journalists have had access to documents declared until recently secret, and after examining over 2,000 pages, they have revealed that, at least until the first quarter of 2019, the Civil Guard and the Spanish Police have carried out a massive spying on several militants of the Independence Left and the CDRs.

The documents analyzed by the journalists, arguing the "fight against terrorism" and authorized by the Examining Court No. 6 of the National Court of Spain, contain the details of the cell to 38 militants. On the one hand, the monitoring carried out by the Police through mobile phones is provided: 50 mobile phones owned by these 38 people were controlled, infected with a spy software that allowed them to know their geolocations and read SMS messages, as well as access to Gmail, Twitter and Facebook accounts. But the celata has not only been mesh, but some have been given beacons for geolocation in cars, as well as persecuting street gowns. The journalist Gema García has gone into the provisions concerning these street tracks in the report Photographs, seguiments amb vehicles and "discrete vigilància" als CDR i l'Esquerra Independentista (Photos, car tracking and "unclear surveillance" of the CDRs and the Left Independentista). The headline indicates what the police street tracking is based on.

As explained by García, the documentation explored includes not only the details of police action, but also several photographs. In them, militants appeared who were investigating during the meetings or displacements, as well as participating in the mobilizations.

The report shows the existence of a pattern of action by the Civil Guard who, when controlling the telephone communications to the respondents, prepared the surveillance units for the days of the concerted meetings, to carry them out with surveillance. In one of these celtic sessions, in the notes taken by the Civil Guard, one can read that agents supposedly from Mossos d'Esquadra were detected, making a parallel beam. It is therefore possible that both the Civil Guard and the mosso have acted in the same way.

The mass jealous spring is on the sabotage of the general strike on November 8, 2017. Militants of the Solidarity Alert Organization against Repression, the CUP, the Endavant organization, the CDRs and the Catalan Student Union SEPC Herrrialde are among those affected by the celata.