Josep Bou has been burning Twitter for 72 hours. The PP councilor in Barcelona was on Saturday visiting a PP tent in Horta-Guinardó when a collaborator who accompanied him, who was driving his car and who, according to the mayor’s own version, was at all times next to the vehicle, she called him almost in tears to inform you that the Mercedes S 350, colored “blue-gray & rdquor; owned by the bakery businessman he was being burned to the ground. Bou tells that he replied: “Cold blood and balls & rdquor ;.
The councilor traveled to his next destination, in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi, by taxi and left his car there: “I have had it for seven or eight years. It’s a marked car. Once, stuck in a parking lot, they broke my windows, with stones. Nothing was taken. Another day my tires got punctured. I don’t even count the scratches. They are fixing them & rdquor ;. Firefighters and the Guàrdia Urbana went to the scene to control the situation and put out the fire.
The businessman will file a complaint for the facts and for the threats of two tweeters
The tweet that started it all
At 12:30 p.m., Bou sent the following message to the social network Twitter: “They just burned my car in Barcelona. I will wait for the police report, but I do announce that nothing will stop me in the performance of duty and my work & rdquor ;. The message received responses of support and comments from the constitutionalist political space, and which pointed out that people linked to the independence movement could be behind what happened. The Jupol police union replied: “A real shame in what Catalonia is becoming & rdquor ;. Solidarity with him was the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida, from the PP; Inés Arrimadas, from Ciutadans, and Ignacio Garriga, from Voxamong others.
They just burned my car in Barcelona.
I will wait for the police report, but I do announce that nothing will stop me from fulfilling my duty and my work. pic.twitter.com/bKhtWpwYaG
— Josep Bou Vila 🇪🇸 (@josebouvila) April 30, 2022
On Sunday the version of the Mossos was known, which pointed out that the fire spread due to a breakdown and according to which the driver was notified that the car was leaking fluid. Bou’s complaint collapsed and complaints came from those who felt that he had unfairly singled out alleged violent men who had not acted.
Call of the Mossos
In the middle of the afternoon, the councilor says, a high-ranking Mossos officer called him to apologize to him for not having known the agents’ conclusion about the supposed breakdown that caused the fire beforehand. Meanwhile, many claimed him, also on Twitter, to ask for forgiveness for having raised doubts about an attack that the Catalan police did not endorse. Or, simply, they accused him of demonizing without evidence people linked to independence.
The councilman warned on Sunday that he would not speak until today, and this Monday he has maintained his thesis that someone is behind the burning of his Mercedes. In dialogue with this newspaper, Bou affirms that his car underwent a thorough inspection 24 hours before the events: “They traveled 72 kilometers with him at full speed. They do it in circuits. The test came out perfect. A Mercedes like this doesn’t burn up just any old way. And much less being diesel. If he has any problems, he lets you know right away & rdquor ;.
Details you can’t reveal
“I am not going to apologize, I will always have the doubt of what has happened. I do not want the conclusions of the report, I want to see the entire report of the Mossos & rdquor ;, she adds. He will present, today or tomorrow, Tuesday, a complaint about what happened. He will also do it against two tweeters who, he stresses, threatened to attack his car: “One has deleted the tweet. We have identified the other”.
And he adds that there is something that his collaborator told him – “I do not have a driver, this person accompanies me sometimes & rdquor ;, he specifies – that fuels his conviction that someone did something that caused the accident. But he insists that he cannot reveal those details. In any case, he does not aim for a direct and frontal attack, because the driver would have seen it.
“I will buy an electric car & rdquor;
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In statements to El Món de Rac1, Bou has doubted the data from the Urban Guard and the Mossos, for considering that they are police forces that “are directed”. Also has called for the resignation of the mayor, Ada Colau, alluding to the complaints filed against him, after the latter, who initially showed his support for what happened, urged him in public and in private to rectify and criticized him for “generating false alarms and attacking the reputation of the city with insinuations & rdquor ;.
As he has declared to this newspaper, Bou has already given up a car like the one that has been burned: “He won’t buy me any more Mercedes. Now I will buy an electric car: I am very ecologist and I really like the mountains.