Agents of the Mossos d’Esquadra and the Guardia Civil will carry out a recording next July in the laboratory of the Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CReSA), owned by the Generalitat, as part of the preliminary investigations carried out by the Juzgado de Instrucción number 2 of Cerdanyola del Vallès, which is investigating the epidemic of swine fever that appeared among wild boars in the Collserola park (Barcelona). Both police forces said the entry respected the protocols and security measures of the center, reported as the possible origin of the crisis.
The court received a police certificate in relation to the case on December 9, which is said to be investigating an alleged environmental crime. The intention of this first movement was that certain steps could be carried out, such as the entry into the laboratory carried out this morning. Stagecoaches are secret.
El CReSA is one of the laboratories that are part of the network of the Instituto de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentarias (IRTA), a public company of the Generalitat. Located on the campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a few hundred meters from its facilities, the first corpses of wild boars infected with swine fever were detected. The pathogen detected in these animals was the same one that had been used in experiments at the Barcelona research center before the outbreak, so an escape is suspected.
The Generalitat has launched an audit to determine whether there are experimental centers involved in the epidemic that appeared in Barcelona and which has generated all the alarms in the Spanish pork sector, important for the economy due to its large export capacity. CReSA is one of the centers studied by this audit. El president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, declared in Parliament, however, that at present “nothing allows us to conclude” that the shoot comes from the public laboratory. Together, the main opposition party, demanded an investigation in Parliament, which amounts to an audit commissioned by the Government, which carries out police agencies and others by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Last year, the government reported 26 jabali deaths from swine fever. The central veterinary laboratory of Algete (Madrid) confirmed the positive result of 10 other jabalies, located near the cases previously reported in the municipality of Cerdanyola del Vallés (Barcelona). In addition, 208 other animal corpses found dead in the natural environment or on railway tracks in the infected area and its surroundings were analyzed, which resulted in negative results.
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