“I am not hiding from Spanish justice,” said Xavier Vendrell, one of the Spaniards landed in the Petro government

There express the nationality of two Spaniards in the government of President Gustavo Petro This is one of the controversies that the current administration of the district has faced, one of the most controversial is Xavier Vendrel, GOOD He is linked in Spain to several terrorist actsand with acts of corruption that led him to have legal troubles.

Vendrell pointed out snail radio that this is not the first time he has traveled to Colombia and that he took part in Gustavo Petro’s presidential campaign in “election witness coordination”, and after his victory he applied for citizenship to facilitate his participation in contracts with the Colombian state.

“Now I am nationalized because it makes it easier for me to get a contract as a political consultant, to be able to work for this country. I continue to do a coordination task for the Change Activists volunteering in the networks. I am a link between the president and the people. Activists collect their concerns and refer them to the president,” he said in Snail radio.

Vendrell belonging to terrorist group illuminate the earth (that he sought by force the independence of Catalonia from the rest of the Spanish territory); The Catalan admitted to having participated in two terrorist attacks and demobilized in 1991. Moreover, in Spain he is under investigation for “Influence peddling and embezzlement during the Catalan independence process”. On this, he clarified that he was not trying to hide on Colombian territory or in his new nationality: “I am not hiding from Spanish justice, with Colombian nationality”. He even points out that in the Iberian country He is accused of various crimes such as the reversal of land, but he points out that it is a persecution for being a Catalan separatist.

“In Spain there has been a persecution of independence for a long time. There’s something called Operation Catalonia where a registered government minister appeared saying we need to end healthcare, healthcare, the Catalan healthcare system, Spain has reached that point. These are constructs that unravel over time, but in the meantime they cause political attrition and generate absolutely false statements. They attack me with corruption issues because I’m obsessed with it. I promoted the law for the creation of the Barcelona Anti-Fraud Office. It’s a conspiracy against the separatists,” Vendrell said in Snail radio.

The Spaniard claims to have no connection with the government of Gustavo Petro, but was involved in the Petrovideos and in the presidential campaign, which -apparently- made him worthy of a Colombian citizenship without fulfilling the conditions to obtain it. He says his relationship with the head of state no longer has anything to do with an agricultural project.

“I will work with the government, because I presented a project called worthy domain, promote cooperatives in which peasant families associate and generate wealth. I’m going to do it as a person, as an outside government contractor. We will see through which entity, because the paperwork was enormous to be able to sign a contract and work for the land to produce, “said the Spaniard in snail radio.

The Spaniard pointed out that he met Petro through a mutual friend and fell in love with his politics, he assured that he was at his side when the attorney general’s office disqualified him due to the change in the garbage collection model in Bogotá; all this made him discover Colombia and consider it his “homeland”.

“I met Petro many years ago, through a mutual friend. I fell in love with this politician, this character. I discovered someone 8,500 kilometers from my home. We are one hundred percent in agreement in our ideology, in our way of apprehending the world. He was elected non-incumbent mayor. Since then, I have always been by his side. In 2013 in the Plaza de Bolívar when the right tried to sink him, he was there with him”, he says on this station.