The conspiracy theory of the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on August 17, 2017, which killed 16 people and caused hundreds of injuries, took shape in 2019 as a result of an article in
Público
and is still alive, without no evidence to support it, three years later.
Some pro-independence parties, led by Junts and sometimes with the support of the ERC, the CUP or even Podemos, have protected themselves under the formula “we want to know the truth”.
But his acolytes, less committed to euphemisms, say directly what some political leaders insinuate.
“Spain is a murderous state”, could be heard this Wednesday, in the act of homage to the victims of the attacks, interrupting the minute of silence.
The basis of the conspiracy theory revolves around the figure of the imam of Ripoll Abdelbaki Es Satty and his relations with the CNI and the State security forces, with whom he had contacts when he was imprisoned between 2010 and 2014 in Castellón for drug trafficking. .
He maintains that the Government, through its secret services and the Ministry of the Interior itself, was aware of the imam's plans to attack, and let him do so in order to punish and stop the independence movement, which was in full swing at that time. .
A thesis that the controversial retired commissioner José Manuel Villarejo supported in his statement in court last January, when he said that the attacks were a "serious mistake by Mr. [Félix] Sanz Roldán [then director of the CNI] who miscalculated the consequences for giving Catalonia a little scare”.
The CNI recognized in the Official Secrets Commission, in March 2018, that they had dealt with Es Satty, as is usual with inmates susceptible to radicalization.
Sanz explained to the deputies that his agents were wrong in not giving the imam the importance it deserved, and disregarding it once he was released from prison.
In the trial, in addition, the Junts deputy and lawyer of one of the parents of the three-year-old boy murdered on La Rambla, Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, raised the hypothesis that the imam is still alive.
The sentence, however, shelved that possibility: all the evidence indicates that he died in the explosion (the DNA of the remains was compared with his relatives, and the only survivor of the explosion said that at that time he was inside a the House).
The logical questions of any police investigation into an event that is attempted to be reconstructed later are the other gaps through which the different conspiracy theses of the 17-A attacks in Catalonia slip through.
Like a mail used by terrorists and that someone consults once Alcanar's house has already been blown up.
The sentence states that Younes Abouyaaqoub, the author of the attack on La Rambla, who "was still alive and on the run", was able to access the mailbox used by the members of the cell to communicate with each other through the drafts.
It is also known that a phone, which was bought with false identities and that Es Satty also used to talk to Ripoll's group "was active" after his death.
The sentence insists that the card was not found and "could have been used by another person."
Neither the Mossos d'Esquadra, nor the investigation supervised by the National Court have found any trace that shows that the secret services, the Government, or both in a dark communion to prevent the independence plans in Catalonia allowed or encouraged an attack that would stop the plans of the Catalan Government, which ended up holding the illegal referendum on October 1, 2017. The pro-independence political parties continue to ask for an in-depth investigation commission to clarify any suspicions about what happened.
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