{"id":1357,"date":"2026-03-27T09:22:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centrosira.org\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:58:25","slug":"infiltraciones-policiales-movimientos-sociales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centrosira.org\/en\/infiltraciones-policiales-movimientos-sociales\/","title":{"rendered":"The impacts of police infiltration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the exposure of police infiltration in social movements across Spain, Sira has provided support and assessments, using the Istanbul Protocol, to virtually all of the victims. These are some of the impacts that Pau P\u00e9rez, the organization's clinical director, summarized in the Parliament of Catalonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pau P\u00e9rez Sales appeared last Thursday, February 15, before the "Commission of Investigation on the Infiltration of State Police Officers into Social, Political and Popular Movements Throughout the Country" of the Parliament of Catalonia. The clinical director of the Sira Center, in his capacity as an expert, presented some of the impacts found after evaluating virtually all the people directly affected by police infiltrations throughout Spain, through the Istanbul Protocol<\/a>. Activists in various social and popular movements \u2013 mostly women \u2013 who had established militant, friendly and sexually affective relationships with undercover police agents, who were seeking to obtain privileged information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since these actions were uncovered by media<\/a>, The Sira Center has accompanied virtually all of the victims, and provided various expert reports as tools for their defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Impacts of police infiltrations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the most serious psychological impacts are depressive episodes, panic attacks, and insomnia. Of all the people evaluated, 70% reported having had suicidal thoughts at some point. In 90% cases, these thoughts were linked to shame, the humiliations suffered, or a clear sense of the "irreversibility of the harm.".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, the victims also present with issues of rejection or discomfort with their bodies and\/or episodes of bulimia or anorexia. Between 72% and 85%, they report having suffered a loss of self-esteem, as well as a severe deterioration of their self-image. In 40% of those evaluated, obsessive behaviors are also identified, such as the need to clean or reorganize spaces shared with the undercover agents, such as the house or bedroom, because they consider these places contaminated. The majority of those examined present feelings of guilt and attribute responsibility for what happened to themselves, something that is common in the context of sexual assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of those interviewed, three cannot understand how the police could resort to something as intimate as personal relationships to obtain information. "It was clearly unnecessary harm... why did they do it? Why did they cause me gratuitous harm that made no sense in relation to what they were supposed to be ordered to do?" one of them points out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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