The last pending judicial procedure in the case investigating three Mossos d'Esquadra officers for an alleged crime of concealment has concluded without incriminating results. The analysis of the officers' mobile phones, seized last January, has not revealed any direct communication with president Carles Puigdemont, according to the internal report accessed by VilaWeb.
The head of Barcelona's Instruction Court number 24, Judge María Antonia Coscollola, had requested the intervention of the devices and call information from seven telephone companies. However, the investigation has not yielded any relevant data that could implicate the officers in the alleged events.
The forced intervention of the investigated officers' mobile phones was ordered following a request from the far-right accusation Hazte Oír, involved in this case, to examine possible messages and communications they allegedly had with Puigdemont.
This request, initially rejected by Judge Coscollola, was finally accepted by order of the Audiencia de Barcelona after an appeal filed by the organization Hazte Oír. Despite the insistence of the Mossos' Internal Investigation Division to expedite the procedure, the results have not provided evidence of contact with any of the four phone numbers associated with Puigdemont.
The only communication detected was a fifty-five-second call between two of the investigated officers on July 29, 2024, ten days before Salvador Illa's investiture session and Puigdemont's reappearance in Barcelona. Investigators also analyzed several phone lines linked to the officers, including family members' numbers, finding no relevance to the case.
Once this procedure, pushed by the far-right and endorsed by the Audiencia de Barcelona, is completed, it remains to be seen what decision Judge Coscollola will make regarding the investigation. The officers' defenses had already requested the dismissal of the case months ago, arguing that the investigation lacked evidence and had become a fishing expedition.
