ARECES .- JOSÉ MANUEL Liberal Newspaper Editor, The Reformer
Seven years after the largest and bloodiest attack in the history of our country, we continue without knowing the material and intellectual authors do not know for sure what explosives were used and a rotten smell to sewers around the whole case.
On March 11, 2004 hundreds of locals were heading to their jobs, like every day. The country was just 3 days of a general election in which all the polls gave the party a majority government, the PP. In some ways it was a normal day, we breakfasted with news of the electoral brawl that filled every day, in which a certain Rodríguez Zapatero, a candidate to lead our destinies, not stop using the war in Iraq and the Prestige disaster and electoral argument, Ibarreche also threatened in this case with his famous Plan, and in Catalonia called for a new statute. The politics of fear was leftist and nationalist mobilization in support of a shoemaker who was very prone to assignments. Another story that filled the newspapers referred to the tragic deaths of three Roma children, aged six and four, who were alone at home when a fire broke out in the town of Balaguer. In economics speak of Rodrigo Rato's candidacy to head the IMF, and sports ranked Zidane goal against Real Madrid for the Champions League.
morning was over, with the usual news, until all radiated and television news programs we warned of an explosion on a commuter train, was nearly eight o'clock. Suddenly the air is stopped, the silence of those who inhabit the skin of a bull was a cry, and only the voices of journalists sounds filled our homes fraught with tragedy. After that moment, everything was a series of alarming news every minute that passed, the number of dead and injured continued to rise to become before our eyes in an unprecedented slaughter. First there was talk of a train, then could be several, it was believed that there could be hundreds of wounded and some dead, an hour later spoke of chaos in El Pozo stations, Atocha and Santa Eugenia. The indelible images of that day were horrific. Few were able to focus our senses that day at work, when feelings kept us aware of what happened in those stations. English had many relatives in transit in a train, and within minutes collapsed calls mobile stations. Hundreds of thousands of calls waiting for a response. Are you okay?, "Have you left home?, Have you come to work?, you hear something? ... one hundred ninety-two not answer those phone calls of concern and anxiety.
similar not remember another day or another attack, I seasoned experience, and English in these unfortunate LIDES of terrorism, in which information is moved so rapidly to the public. The then interior minister, Angel Acebes, was appearing almost every hour to provide updates on a nation glued to televisions and radios. The confusion was evident in the government, and the feeling of dismay drew the faces of those responsible to face so great crisis. The first news reports of the possibility that the band ETA may be behind the attacks. The hours and the last days witnessed a tense battle between government and opposition on the responsibility for the attacks. I can not forget how, when researchers had hardly been any investigation, the chain being released the news that the authors could be radical Islamists, and immediately followed almost timed, the director Pedro Almodóvar warned of a possible coup or suspension of the elections by the government, and then Perez Rubalcaba accused, without a hint of shame or institutional responsibility, of lying to the government. It was moved within hours to a public State of Shock, a picture, that the attacks were the fault of a government that took us to war in Iraq. The electoral roll was in progress, and a devastating propaganda machine and subsequent launch coordinated attacks against the credibility of the Partido Popular. A demonstration "improvised" by sms chains were summoned to the headquarters of the Partido Popular, attracting thousands of leftists, and instantly jump to television. Some years have passed and still I do not understand the amazing ability to improvise the PSOE. With the government through the media knocked practically KO, resulted in an unexpected electoral support in the days before the day on March 14 Zapatero. Too many coincidences.
Following the election victory, strange events following the investigation into the bombings. It is located on an alleged command responsibility for the attack apparently in an apartment in Leganes, components that are not in the attack blew themselves if they do this time of the occurrence allegedly alerted the police. A strange and fro in the custody of evidence miraculously brings up a backpack filled with explosives and shrapnel that exploded on trains, and served to link all the research and direct it to the Asturian mountains, to a mine and related strangely criminal group with security forces. Chief the EOD, takes away almost all the evidence and sent to destroy the trains. See a vehicle in the outskirts of Madrid where they are again, miraculously, the traces of DNA from the terrorists committed suicide in Leganés and tapes in Arabic. In parallel, a large proportion of the population outraged by the stink of Tongo of research begins to seek justice, formed the Black Pawns movement, headed by journalist Luis del Pino, who begins to collect evidence and analyze parallel research. Every day 11 of each month, thousands of people would fill the streets of the country's capital demanding the truth.
At that time the People's Party called for justice and truth, being aware that there was a chain of events, strangely suspicious, for the benefit of the PSOE's electoral victory. But at the trial, where there were all sorts of irregularities, some popular leaders, led by Ruiz Gallardón began to change the course of their views in favor of forgetting the case.
Seven years have passed, and as always happens in these cases, new evidence, the victims continue with determination to uncover the truth, and a Madrid judge begins to surround the police authorities of the era, including the chief of the EOD , Sánchez Manzano, before the destruction of evidence and failure to follow protocols police in such circumstances. Probably in a few years, despite the concealment, delays, threats and lies of the Interior Ministry, some police begin to distance himself, fearful of the consequences and begin to reveal more data. In the end the truth will look, and know the explanation to a question that in principle it cost to become. What motive drives some policemen, judges and politicians, to hide the truth about an attack, building a credible means story but full of inaccuracies and shoddy workmanship?, What is the object of the conspiracy?. I am sure of one thing, the truth, when known, can be more shocking than we expected.
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