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Jorge Fernández Díaz, between good and sewers

2020-09-19T20:47:50.685Z


The five years of the PP leader in the Interior Ministry were marked by shady issues until the creation of the so-called 'patriotic police'


Jorge Fernández Díaz, in Congress in an archive image.JJ Guillén / EFE

Jorge Fernández Díaz (Valladolid, 1950) even decorated a virgin, but whatever happens, he will go down in history as the minister of the

patriotic police.

A personal friend of former President Mariano Rajoy, who made him Minister of the Interior in December 2011 and kept him in office until November 2016 —when he had already been rejected in October by the Congress of Deputies—, Fernández-Díaz brought his loyalty to the Leader allegedly beyond the law: "I would do anything to protect him", they say in his closest environment.

That fidelity, in light of the writings of the Prosecutor's Office and the recordings that he himself ordered (he recorded himself when he interviewed the head of the Generalitat's anti-fraud office to talk about possible corruption of Catalan politicians), he has become the supposed head of a political-police organization designed to protect the PP and its leader.

On October 30, he will have to appear before the judge of the National Court, Manuel García-Castellón, to respond to these accusations.

In the almost five years that he was installed in the palace at number 5 Paseo de la Castellana, the Interior headquarters, Fernández was gaining notoriety.

He became fond of journalists and cameras, alternating reporting on the evolution of crime and crime with almost daily anti-jihadist operations and speeches about the threat posed by the lone wolves of the Islamic State to Western society.

In the same way that, according to his advisers, he always found a space throughout the day to go to mass (he is a supernumerary member of Opus Dei), it was rare that he also did not have one for a public appearance.

That was his visible face.

The invisible began to be discovered with the recordings of the retired commissioner Villarejo, the

pendrives

of Eugenio Pino (former deputy operational director of the Police), the judicial statements of the commissioner Enrique García Castaño,

El Gordo,

and now with the compromising text messages exchanged and saved for whoever was his second in the Ministry, former Secretary of State Francisco Martínez.

The characters are always the same, the ones he supposedly chose to accompany him in his “eagerness” (his memoirs are titled

Every day has his eagerness

) and that appear linked to murky matters and alleged corruption: in the recordings of the former president of the Community of Madrid Ignacio González on his controversial penthouse in Marbella;

in the case of the false bank accounts in Switzerland of the former mayor of Barcelona Xavier Trías;

in the attempts to carry out searches at the headquarters of the Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC);

in the investigation into the tax evasions of the Pujol family;

in the episode of Little Nicholas;

in the unfortunate

PISA report

(Pablo Iglesias SA), a set-up against the leader of Podemos;

in the wiretaps carried out in his own ministry ...

A history buff, he dedicated a part of his time in Interior to what he called "defeating ETA in the battle of the story" so that the version of the good guys, the victims, would prevail.

As a devout Christian, he called himself guided by the Good, with capital letters.

The suspicion is that in his desire for benefaction he forgot that the end does not justify the means.

Source: elparis

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