José María Romero de Tejada Gómez (15 August 1948 – 27 November 2017), was a Spanish conservative jurist who was the Attorney General of Catalonia from 2013 until his death in 2017.
He was appointed top fiscal of Catalonia in July 2013, after the Attorney General of the State forced to resign Martín Rodríguez Sol because he defended the celebration of the 2014 Catalan self-determination referendum.
[2] On 23 September 2017 Romero de Tejada placed the lieutenant colonel, Diego Pérez de los Cobos Orihuel, as the head of the State security forces and bodies in Catalonia, including the Mossos d'Esquadra – in parallel to Operation Anubis – when the Spanish government tried to restrain the self-determination referendum on 1 October.
[3] On 25 September he ordered the Mossos to go to all polling stations in search of ballot boxes and to warn their perpetrators that it was a crime to cede those locales.
[4] Moreover, he presented complaints to the High Court of Justice of Catalonia against the President of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, and his Government, and against the Bureau of Parliament for the sovereignty process.