Editorial: El Mundo

• The Interior Ministry and the Mossos d'Esquadra did not do everything they could to detain Carles Puigdemont.
• Puigdemont's return to Spain seems to have the connivance of the Interior Ministry.
• There is revealed politicization in the Mossos through their explanations and actions.
• Junts and ERC are willing to use the autonomous police in their fight to lead the independence movement.
• The current police chief, Salvador Illa, has ties with the independentism and is expected to be unable to carry out a necessary depoliticization of the Mossos.

Conclusion: The mockery of Carles Puigdemont and his return to Spain without arrest indicates an apparent complicity of the Interior Ministry and a lack of effective action on the part of the Mossos. The situation reveals a high level of politicization in the Catalan police forces and a use of these in the battle for leading the independence movement. A reform of the Mossos seems unlikely given the current links of the police chief with the independence movement.

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