Agents of the Civil Guard this lunchtime entered the premises of Indugraf Offset, the printers in Constantí, southern Catalonia, to investigate whether the company is preparing material for the 1st October referendum. The agents entered after 48 hours of surveillance in front of the business. The search lasted almost two hours and the agents left with a box, rucksacks and some briefcase. Nonetheless, after the search, the company published a statement saying that the agents had found "nothing of special interest".
Shortly after 2:45pm, around 10 agents drove into the company's car park, unloaded some boxes and went into the premises. At all times they were accompanied by the manager and lawyer of the printers. The police's actions were prompted by hints that the company might have been printing documentation related to the referendum, specifically scrutiny documents.
The Civil Guard searched the company on the orders of the Public Prosecutors' Office of Tarragona, according to legal sources that have spoken with the Efe Spanish news agency. The Supreme Court of Justice of Catalonia confirmed that Barcelona's court number 13 hadn't given any judicial order for the search, nor does the duty judge in Tarragona have any record of such an order.
The search falls within the order given by Spain's Attorney General, José Manuel Maza, to the different police forces (Civil Guard, National Police and the Mossos d'Esquadra Catalan police) to confiscate anything used to hold the referendum.
Agents of the Civil Guard have been monitoring vehicles leaving the company in Constantí's industrial estate for 48 hours and searching employees cars whilst they are leaving. This also included, this morning, searching the cleaning company used by the printers, one of the most important of the province which has, among its clients, written publications and political parties.