Youth ask me, in a tricky way, why ARA doesn't release information about the Esplugues crime, and if it's because they want to hide it. "They're hiding that it's a jihadist attack," they complain. "The man said 'Allah is great,'" they tell me. "Why doesn't ARA publish the video of the man shouting 'Allah is great?'"
ARA did publish a piece on Saturday explaining the events, which had taken place the same day, and the arrest of the murderer. And on Monday it published that the Mossos don't link the crime with jihadism, as do some political parties that confuse Islamism with leatherwork. Regarding the video, we read in the newspaper that "information has circulated that the man made Islamist calls during the perpetration of the crime. Sources consulted by ARA state that, for now, this information is not verified and nothing suggests that any such proclamation was made."
But what video are we talking about? I ask them, these young people. It's a video from Cuatro where the presenter says that a man has stabbed a woman and that several neighbors claim he uttered phrases in Arabic. Therefore, they haven't heard it. Nor have they heard these neighbors who claim to have heard it. This presenter is right to say that some neighbors say they heard whatever, but giving it the value it has, for now. It could be a lie, an illusion, a false perception, or the truth.
Youth "believed" that they had heard the man saying what they say he said. The man is Moroccan, but he is above all someone who doesn't mess around. When I show them that it's not true that it's a jihadist attack (if it were, obviously no one would want to hide it), they get angry. Nobody wants to look like a fool. And then, the Moors are to blame for everything anyway. The tragedy of this event is that apparently the man had already threatened and caused problems. The woman's death could have been avoided.
