'El Mundo' before 11-M and before 17-A

There were many, many years in which The World The newspaper kept the wound of 11-M open, fuelling doubts about the authorship of the attack. Its obsession with hardening ETA's responsibility for the crime led it to publish a number of dubious exclusives and some ridiculous statements. When it came to justifying itself, the former director of the newspaper, Pedro J. Ramírez, said that they had only asked questions and demanded that the investigation be exhaustive, in case there were links that linked the Basque group with the jihadists. Links that have never appeared.

Let's do fast forward And now we move on to the Rambla attacks. This Thursday, one of those convicted of 17-A testified and assured that the CNI knew what the Ripoll imam's intentions were. The headline of the newspaper, on the front page, was "The jihadist from Las Ramblas stirs up Puigdemont's conspiracy theory" and the subtitle even contains a bit of indignation for having let him speak: "Congress allows him to attack the CNI..." In the digital edition for another anti-immigration attack and pointed out by Junts to Congress". It is true that the terrorist has not provided evidence. But where is that fervor to investigate everything to the end that The World Did he exhibit it with the 11-M? Why is the sister being gratuitously attacked, who has been distinguished by the City Council for her brilliant academic record in her assistance work as a nursing student? Why do both news stories push Junts or Puigdemont, when what we are trying to do here is to find out if there was some corrupt relationship between the imam, the Spanish security forces and the secret services? Dismissing it as a conspiracy theory is a rather silly excuse to look the other way and not investigate.