The CGT union has filed an administrative litigation appeal with the High Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) against the Department of the Interior and Public Security. The legal action is based on an alleged “violation of fundamental rights” due to the infiltration of two plainclothes officers into a teachers' assembly. The union's Education Federation, through its lawyer Mireia Salazar, has directed the lawsuit “specifically” at the directorate general of the Mossos d’Esquadra.

From the Interior Department, the Secretary General of Education, Laura Gené, has defended the police measure as a necessary action for “the protection and defense of the rights of assembly, to unionize, and the legitimate right to protest.” In parallel, CGT has formally requested the Catalan police to provide documentation on all infiltrations carried out in the last ten years.

As detailed by Salazar, the police operation, which took place on May 6 at the Institut Pau Claris in Barcelona, allegedly violated the rights to strike, union freedoms, and freedom of expression of the assembly attendees. In the litigation, CGT seeks clarification on “who ordered the operation, under what conditions, and understanding what the risk was,” and whether the Department of Education was involved.

The lawyer emphasized that the Catalan police's decision to carry out “preventive actions to avoid being illegally monitored” demonstrates the violation of rights. CGT does not rule out joining forces with other unions in the sector for a joint case in the future, although the current priority is to resolve the existing teaching conflict with the Department of Education and Vocational Training.

For their part, union lawyer Mireia Bazaga has confirmed the request for information from the general information commissioner of the Mossos d’Esquadra regarding infiltrations in CGT meetings, assemblies, and mobilizations over the past decade. This request stems from “suspicions” generated after the statements made by the director general of the Mossos, Josep Lluís Trapero, and the Minister of the Interior, Núria Parlon, before the Parliamentary commission. Bazaga believes the union has “the right to know these circumstances” and to understand the police force's “priorities” regarding the union's “legitimate activity.”

Gené expressed “great concern” over the statements by Parlon and Trapero, who acknowledged the incident as an “error due to inertia.” The unionist criticized that while warning of the threat of the far-right, “with a PSC like this, we practically already have it.”