The Generalitat is already studying possible legal actions for the 9N cyberattack

Barcelona (EFE) that sought to “paralyze Catalonia”.

The Israeli businessman Tal Hanan has attributed the cyberattack to the Generalitat in the independence referendum of November 9, 2014 and has assured that his companies work for intelligence services, have participated in 33 campaigns and offer disinformation to governments, candidates and companies.

This is confirmed by an investigation by the organization of journalists Forbidden Stories, where El País participates with more than twenty media.

Under the pseudonym Jorge, Tal Hanan, 50, a technology expert, former deputy commander of the Israeli Army and linked to the British consultancy Cambridge Analytica, exhibited last July as a success story in meetings with potential clients the largest offensive on the Internet that has registered Catalonia.

This is an assault that intermittently bombarded the Generalitat’s web pages for three days, such as participa2014.cat and disrupted the emergency medical service, the Catalan police request manager and the e-justice portal, among others, while the entities pro-independence Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) and Òmnium Cultural also denounced attacks.

“They sought to paralyze the country due to 9N and stop the unstoppable force of the citizenry. As always, with dirty play, outside of the democratic norms that they proclaim so much and jump at the first against the independence movement. For dignity and justice, transparency and clarification of the facts are needed,” said the Catalan president and ERC national coordinator, Pere Aragonès, in a message on Twitter.

In this sense, in statements to the media, the Minister of the Presidency of the Generalitat, Laura Vilagrà, has assured that the Catalan government is already studying what possible legal actions to take for this “illicit and illegitimate” action in the information systems of the Government.

Vilagrà has warned that “these very serious events could compromise infrastructures and first-order services of the Generalitat”, so the legal services of the Catalan Executive are studying a possible complaint against that businessman and against “whoever may be behind this cyberattack”.

The former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont (JxCat) has also referred to the cyberattack, in a message on Twitter: “As with the Catalangate scandal, the infiltrated spies, the indeterminate proceedings… the client is always the same.”

“And millions of euros are spent chasing ideas that, in the face of the gallery, they say are legitimate. Fakers. The technological GAL. The PSOE has experience”, the former president stated.

A few words from Puigdemont in reference to a twitter of the former Catalan vice president Jordi Puigneró (JxCat), who held the Department of Digital Policies of the Aragonès government until a few months ago, who has assured that he already warned then that the cyberattack was “in charge” .

“Who else could have an interest in bringing down the computer systems of the Generalitat on the weekend of the 9N independence referendum?” Puigneró suggested.