From intimate relations to a gigolo policeman: the revelations that complicate the Spanish police

“The double life of Dani, the undercover gigolo policeman”, “DThey discover a police officer infiltrated in social movements in Madrid”, “A policeman in the bed of the libertarian movements”, “Marc, the undercover cop”. They are not movie names, but news headlines. The scrutiny of the police Spanish It has increased after the media revealed that some agents had infiltrated extreme left or environmental movements, even using intimate or sexual relationships to achieve their goals.

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Most of the alleged operations were uncovered by the Catalan media “La Directa”, which revealed in recent weeks that two policemen in Barcelona and Valencia dedicated their lives for more than two years to infiltrating environments whose threat could not be explained by government.

On February 8, Gabriel Rufián, parliamentary spokesman for the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), rebuked the president of the Spanish government, Pedro Sánchez, on the issue and before Parliament. The deputy reminded the chief executive that one of the agents involved in the infiltration scandal ended up with five complaints against him for sexual abuse and no action against those investigated.

“The next time they want to infiltrate a criminal organization, I give them ideas: the Popular Party (Sánchez’s political group), the Francisco Franco Foundation or Zarzuela”, Ruffian snapped. Sánchez completely ignored the issue and focused on defending the work of the police.

The Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, has ignored the issue. (Photo: EFE) (Chema Moya/)

“the direct” was able to learn the real and false names of two agents who infiltrated different social movements in Barcelona and Valencia, as well as their strategies to achieve it, thanks to testimonials from the people who interacted with them. Already in June 2022, the outlet had revealed the case of another undercover police officer also in Barcelona.

“Among the few certainties that exist about what they really did is that they belong to the General Police Information Station, dedicated mainly to combating terrorism.”, says the medium “elDiario.es”.

He adds that the work of the agents was not part of a legal case, so it is beyond the control of a magistrate. “The discovered infiltrators did not act as judicial police investigating the commission of a crime but rather collected information in a preventive manner. And the law does not contemplate controls for that work“, Explain.

The “gigolo” policeman who ended up sued by eight women

To become Dani Hernández Pons, agent Daniel H. underwent a radical change. The police officer, who is known to be in his thirties, muscled up and got piercings and tattoos to take advantage for almost three and a half years of his sentimental and sexual relationships with eight women from the anti-system and anarchist environment in Barcelona to obtain information, reported “La Directa” last February.

To achieve the scam, which occurred between June 2020 and October 2022, Daniel moved to live in the Sant Andreu de Palomar neighborhood in Barcelona, ​​one of the areas with the greatest presence of anti-systems in the city. Citing police sources, the newspaper “La voz de Galicia” details that in June he appeared in the gym of the squatted social center La Cinétika. “He liked it very much, both to them and to them. And he began his ongoing relationships with various women.

Using the women he deceived, Daniel, who presented himself as a likeable and easy-going Majorcan who installed air conditioners, went where no National Police agent had ever gone before in the Catalan anarchist ecosystem, as his friends have admitted. bosses.

His life as an undercover agent of the National Police began to fall apart after “La Directa” revealed the case of Marc, another infiltrated agent, in June of last year.

#FRONT PAGE | An agent of the Spanish police infiltrates during three years in the activism of #Barcelona mitjançant the construction of sexual relationships.#EspionatgedEstat

✍️ Per @gemma_g_fabrega, @dvdbou Yo @albertmartnez

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— Direct (@La_Directa) January 30, 2023

Five women have sued Dani for the inappropriate use that they consider she made of their sexual and affective relationships in her task of obtaining information. The newspaper “El País” explains that the women who accuse him of vitiating the consent of sexual relations, using them, dehumanizing them to obtain personal and ideological information, are part of a larger group. They accuse him of sexual assault and a crime against moral integrity, among others.

Dani, however, has not had, until now, bad luck because, according to police sources, after revealing his identity, he was assigned to an embassy abroad.

The most discreet

Another case uncovered in recent weeks is that of the agent who, under the false identity of Ramón Martínez Hernández, became friends for two years with numerous activists from radical groups in Valencia.

“He was a super nice person, very friendly and cordial, he never made a bad face and he was a hard worker. To fit in well, he never showed up and was always willing to lend a hand. Now we understand why”, said an activist from the Benimaclet neighborhood movement who identified himself as Alan to “elDiario.es”.

#EspionatgedEstat | #Direct563 pic.twitter.com/98QaCNEU56

— Direct (@La_Directa) February 12, 2023

Cuidem Benimaclet’s main flag is the rejection of the urban project for the northern extension of this neighborhood of Valencia, and it is of an assembly nature.

Unlike Dani, Ramón, who declared himself anti-fascist and left-wing, did not have intimate contact with anyone, according to sources consulted by the “El Español” media.

“There were women who he got very close to, he did not have a sexual-affective relationship with them, but he did have an affective one”Allan points out.

Another alleged undercover agent who played a discreet role was Marc Hernández, who was actually IJEG, a state official disguised as part of the left-wing political movement for Catalan independence.

Specifically, he spent two years actively participating in movements for the right to housing and in the pro-independence left of Catalonia until an investigation by “La Directa” revealed his true identity in June 2022.

The case of a National Police agent who was infiltrating social movements in Madris was also recently revealed. According to the mediumThe jump”, heto woman, under the name Mavi LFwent to social centers and assemblies on environmentalism, such as those organized by Extinction Rebellion and Futuro Vegetal, to obtain information.

Source: Elcomercio