THE Catalan police chief sacked by Spanish authorities for not doing enough to stop the 2017 independence referendum has been reinstated less than a month after he was acquitted.
Josep Lluis Trapero accepted an offer from Catalan interior minister Miquel Samper after the head of the Mossos d’Esquadra was cleared of all charges by Spain’s National Court last month.
Trapero – who was praised for running the response to the Barcelona terror attacks in August 2017 –led the Mossos during the referendum and was accused of leniency.
As armour-wearing Spanish national police laid into peaceful would-be voters with riot batons, Trapero instructed his officers to seal off polling stations where possible, but avoid situations that put social peace at risk.
A month after the poll, when Spain imposed direct rule on Catalonia, Trapero was sacked alongside then president Carles Puigdemont and his ministers.
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