During the promotion of the film Cronos, about the August 2017 attacks, the actor Enric Auquer asked himself what we did wrong "if there are some Catalan boys who commit attacks speaking Catalan among themselves against other Catalans and an imam from Ripoll who is capable of radicalizing these kids".I was in Ripoll those days, walking the streets and talking with teachers, social mediators, entrepreneurs, politicians, members of the Catholic and Muslim communities, former classmates and football teammates of those who, incredibly, had become terrorists. The conviction was unanimous: if there were any children of North African emigration on their way to a future life in Catalonia, it was them. They had studied and some had good salaries. Those who could help them did help them, and knew them by their first and last names, them and their families.In Ripoll, many things were done well. But in Ripoll, I was also told what a police officer in the film comments: these boys, who were no longer from there, still did not quite feel from here. And Western values are not transmitted solely by place of birth or language. Islamist radicalization can occur in any country. And these young, disoriented, and half-formed personalities are susceptible to believing someone who lectures them, making them feel important and transcendent, talking to them about infidels and paradises. This is what happened, and this harm was not caused by the Ripoll society but by the imam, previously contacted and known by the Spanish secret services and not sufficiently monitored.That cannot be fixed anymore. What should worry us is what we might be doing wrong now, especially so that it does not happen again. Let us watch out for radicalization. And surely the path of hatred that begins against a religion and always ends up turning against anyone who disagrees is a tragic and proven path to failure as a country.

The week ends with the hangover from yesterday's debate in Congress. Just 24 hours later, what we anticipated yesterday on the fly is already being confirmed: Sánchez's explanations arrived late, remain overshadowed by the reality of the thousands of people who are still wandering through Ceuta and, therefore, the Spanish president is doomed. Neither the opposition nor the investiture partners believe that Morocco had nothing to do with it (it is impossible for the illegal displacement of seventy thousand people to go unnoticed by a regime like Morocco) and therefore Sánchez moves between the figure of someone who, for the sake of state, does not want to antagonize a neighbor with the capacity to complicate your life and that of a president who is a victim of blackmail by Morocco. The fact that Sánchez is sentenced is a metaphor, but for the PP and Vox it is a wish. Feijóo said yesterday that “Sánchez will pay for his management, at the polls and in the courts”. And the fact is that Vox has long been reminding that Sánchez can be tried for treason, a procedure that is regulated in article 102 of the Constitution and which would be handled by the criminal chamber of the Supreme Court and which consists of an initiative by a quarter of the members of the Congress of Deputies and requires the approval of half plus one of the deputies (this would be 176), and the PP and Vox alone do not reach it, they are 169.Beyond when and how the legislative term ends, the case has other equally serious dimensions. For example, the power of Morocco, an ally of the United States, with a good relationship with Israel, and which receives money from the EU to regulate migratory flows. This gives it great bargaining power. As our head of International, Francesc Millan, explains today, in this column in which he draws the contrast between how the EU stands together when Russia attacks, but when the problem has been at its southern border, the problem was Spanish, not European. Mind you, while we talk about geopolitics, yesterday more than 80 people appeared dead on a migrant boat that arrived in the Canary Islands. The boat had left Gambia 26 days ago. After decades of apparently predictable life, we have entered the era of life under threat, a hybrid, indirect, disruptive threat that prevents making plans and living under the impression (more or less based on real events) that life depends on us and not on external, geopolitical factors.Speaking of violent disruptions, yesterday the film Cronos, about the attacks on La Rambla and Cambrils in July 2017.I had the opportunity to watch it and I recommend it to you. You start watching it with a knot in your stomach and you finish it the same way.The pace set by the director is very high and sustained, the script is clear, the acting is competent, and the production is well-resourced. The story is told, above all, from within the Mossos, from Trapero to the commanders who led the capture of the terrorists, which lasted four days, passing through the Mossos' communication director, Patrícia Plaja, and her impeccable crisis communication during those days. The political dispute between the Spanish government and the Generalitat over the management and information regarding the attack is noted, as well as the regrettable leak of The Mossos-The note to make the Mossos and the Generalitat look bad. What is not provided as context is that there was only a month and a half left until October 1st. And the state of shock in Ripoll is also well noted. Not so much the story of boys who were apparently integrated but were ripe for radicalization. But since we are talking about a two-hour film and not a six-part series, many narrative threads come to mind that remain to be unfolded.

In a country like Catalonia, built politically from a critical consciousness towards the police, few actions have received more consensus than that of the Mossos d'Esquadra in the face of the attacks of August 17, 2017, in Barcelona and Cambrils. That is why Cronos is possible, a film with the vocation of reaching a wide audience in which these events unfold only from the police perspective. A model common in Hollywood that screenwriter Alberto Marini brings to our context, insisting on the human (and not superheroic) dimension of the protagonists, and director Fernando González Molina orchestrates with more efficiency than personality. The goal is to recreate those fateful hours that everyone vividly remembers in the form of a thriller that is realistic (that is to say, with many exterior locations) and loaded with emotions.

"What the hell happened?", exclaims, flustered, a police officer with the face of Enric Auquer amidst the confusion of the moments after the Rambla attack on 17-A. It is one of the images from the trailer of Cronos, the thriller about the police operation to capture the perpetrators of the Rambla and Cambrils attacks, which will be released in cinemas on September 4. Directed by Fernando González Molina, responsible for box office hits such as Three Steps Above Heaven, Palm Trees in the Snow, or The Invisible Guardian, it will be the first film to bring the 17-A attacks to the cinema. In fact, it is the first cinematic fiction about terrorist attacks in Catalonia.

Laura Morro took the relief in Conxita Peña As dean of the Catalan College of Social Work, a position she combines with her work as head of social work at the Consorci Mar Parc de Salut. She states that she has proposed that society and politicians recognize the value of these professionals.

Eight years after the August 17 attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, the victims maintain their objective of having a judicial investigation clarify everything surrounding the 17-A incident. The ruling of the National Court, which focused only on the explosion in Alcanar the day before, ignored the possible relationship between the CNI and the imam of Ripoll, Abdelbaki se-Satty. However, in the last year the Congressional commission of inquiry into the 17-A attacks has revealed documents that reveal that the CNI had tried to capture Es-SattyIn this same commission, one of the three convicted for the attacks, Mohamed Houli, He openly accused the CNI of knowing "the imam's intentions.".

Mireia Martínez was 22 years old on August 17, 2017, when her three-year-old brother Xavi was murdered on Barcelona's La Rambla. In recent years, she has decided to train as an emergency psychologist and has been with his father in activism for the rights of victims of terrorism. With him and other members, the month of May They presented the 17-A Association: We Want to Know the Truth.

When he heard that there had been a A car accident with numerous fatalities and injuries in BarcelonaLaura Morro was eating, at home after a full day's work at the hospital. "It was the very day I had returned from vacation. A colleague who was at the Fnac in Plaza Catalunya at the time called me and told me that something big was happening because they weren't allowed to go outside," she recalls. She's neither a doctor nor a nurse: she's a healthcare social worker at Hospital del Mar. "I immediately thought they would take most of the patients to our hospital," she says. She left home without a second thought and went to her workplace, as did many other healthcare professionals that day. "I remember there was no one on the streets; everyone had locked themselves in at home, and when I got to the Emergency Room, I said, 'What can I do?' And they replied, 'Do what you know,'" she explains.

The 17-A Association: We Want to Know the Truth was launched this Wednesday with the goal of "not only remembering the victims and the pain, but also giving back to society." This is how she summed it up. Javier Martínez, father of Xavi who died at the age of three during the attack on La Rambla of Barcelona on August 17, 2017. Martínez will preside over this new association, which will have as treasurer his daughter and Xavi's sister, Mireia Martínez, who, following the attack, decided to train as a health and emergency psychologist. The board of directors is completed by former Mossos d'Esquadra David Torrents, who will be vice president, and lawyer and former Junts MP Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas as secretary. He has represented Xavi's family in the judicial proceedings surrounding the attacks and is working to get other countries to investigate the attacks.

Ripoll imam Abdelbaki es-Satty was paid €500 a month by the National Intelligence Agency (CNI) as an informant before the 17-A attacks. This is what the newspaper explained on Monday. Abc, and the independence movement has already rushed to once again request the appearance of former secret service director Félix Sanz Roldán before the commission of inquiry opened in Congress. Sanz Roldán's statements have been changing: during his visit to the Lower House, he stated that Es-Satty "had never been a collaborator or informant" for the intelligence services, but the classified documentation provided by the CNI revealed that contact had been maintained with the imam after his release from prison; however, payments were processed through the Girona office.

"You have to suffer all your life. What would my son be like now?" Francisco Javier Martínez, father of Xavi Martínez Mompart, the three-year-old boy killed in the attack on the Rambla on August 17, 2017, has been the first victim to appear before the commission of inquiry in Congress on 17-A. Martínez has denounced, seven and a half years later, that in all this time the administrations have not attended well to the victims, who have been "marked for life." "We are the broken toys of a society. We need empathy to help us get back on our feet," he said. Martínez has explained that they have lacked support, information about their rights and about the procedures they should follow. And he has denounced episodes of lack of "humanity." His testimony, he stressed, seeks to "improve" care for the future. "Do not forget that it can happen to any of you," he said.

In politics, it seems that anything goes has been consolidated. Last week, without going any further, a terrorist was allowed – in fact, asked – to sit in a citizen representation body to give his opinion. The kind invitation was received from Junts por Catalunya. We hope that Míriam Nogueras's people are satisfied with the result: that a fanatic who was preparing bombs to blow up the Camp Nou or the Sagrada Família was rewarded with a few undeserved minutes of glory.

What happened yesterday in Congress was unusual: a man convicted for the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils on August 17 accused the CNI to know the intentions of the imam of Ripoll.

There is no doubt that the initial words of the jihadist convicted of 17-A, Mohamed Houli, in his appearance before the Congressional commission of inquiry, directly accusing the CNI of knowing the intentions of the Ripoll imam, are a political earthquake. His exact words were: "The CNI was aware of the imam's intentions and allowed him to come and brainwash us. I say this now and not before for fear of reprisals or that it could harm me, but I am already condemned and I have nothing to lose." A terrorist has the credibility he has, and Houli's words reveal a certain self-exculpatory intention when he accuses Abdelbaki es-Satty of having "brainwashed" the boys in the cell, and it is also true that he does not have any documentary evidence, but even so his testimony is shocking because he is someone totally alien to the political fray.

The statements of one of those convicted for 17-A, Mohamed Houli, who has assured that the National Intelligence Center (CNI) knew the imam's "intentions" The lawyers of one of the accused in the trial, Abdelbaki Es Satty, have not surprised the lawyers of one of the accused in the trial. Specifically, that of the parents of Xavi, the 3-year-old boy who died in La Rambla, who during the proceedings tried to have it investigated whether the secret services were behind the attacks or, at least, whether they committed serious negligence. "We are studying it and seeing how we approach it," says lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas in the ARA, who advances the intention of filing a new complaint against the head of the CNI at that time, Félix Sanz Roldán, and his political representatives. Whether it would be against former president Mariano Rajoy, former Defence Minister María Dolores de Cospedal or former Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido, has not yet been decided. Cuevillas believes that there is not enough grounds to convict anyone, but there is to open an investigation.

A day after controversy broke out over protesters disrupting the minute's silence in remembrance of victims of the 2017 Ramblas terror attacks, suspended Catalan parliamentary speaker Laura Borràs has spoken to Catalunya Ràdio. Borràs, who on Wednesday only retweeted messages she received in support but did not retweet her party's explicit condemnation of the protest, said the action was "totally out of place", but claimed only one person took part, insisting on disassociating the disruption from the dozens of protesters demanding to know "the whole truth" about the terrorist attacks. "You will not find any video where I have greeted this person," she said. Several shouts can be heard in videos of the minute's silence, although most protesters kept quiet.

Commissioner Eduard Sallent is the number 2 within the Catalan police, known as the Mossos d'Esquadra, serving under Josep Maria Estela. Sallent worked in the intelligence department five years ago, so we ask him to look back on that fateful August 17, what we learnt and how anti-terrorist surveillance is carried out now in Catalonia.

The institutional act to remember the victims of the 17 August 2017 terror attacks, five years after the tragedy, saw scenes of tension due to a protest by a group of pro-independence activists, some of whom broke the minute's silence with shouts demanding to know "the whole truth", causing the indignation and surprise of the victims and their families.

She arrives at Pla de l'Os in a wheelchair, gets up and walked with crutches until she can sit on one of the chairs. She is dressed in blue, wearing sunglasses, her hands are shaking and she cannot stop crying. Once she is seated, she is handed a framed photograph. It is her son's, Julian, one of those killed in the August 17, 2017 attack in Barcelona, when he was only seven years old. Her name is Jumaine but everyone calls her Jom. Her legs were left shattered by the attack and it wasn't until three days later that she found out Julian was gone. Hers is the most moving, the most terrible image of the tribute paid today to the victims of that attack. The victims lay flowers. Robert Manrique, a tireless fighter for the rights of victims of all terrorist attacks, has come along with his three grandchildren, Dominic and Andrea, four, and Ramses, two, and they too lay a flower. Jom can't stop crying, and everyone she meets tries to console her. It is impressive to think what must be going on inside those people who step on Miró's mural, right where the van that destroyed their lives stopped. Mental strength, integrity, dignity. I remember that in the memorial held on the first anniversary, in 2018, Xavi Martínez was present. He is the father of Xavi, the three-year-old boy who also died. This year he announced on social media that he would not attend. He does not agree with the political management of the attacks nor with the sentence regarding the involvement of the Ripoll jihadist cell. In fact, there is a large group of people who, on the fringes of the event, make their voices heard: "We want to know the truth!" they shout.

While waiting for the president of the Spanish government or a minister to make a statement, its delegate in Catalonia, Teresa Cunillera, has assured that former superintendent José Manuel Villarejo "has no credibility" after he linked the Spanish National Intelligence Centre (CNI) with the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils in August 2017. "He has a long history of trying to sow shadows of suspicion without ever providing evidence," she denounced in a press conference, where she insisted that "the insinuations have no logical or material basis." "There is no other explanation than the desire to stir trouble", she continued. Cunillera also regretted that Villarejo is given credibility by some and has addressed the Catalan government especially to ask it "not to play [Villarejo's] game" because in Catalonia "there is no need for tension". "To what extent do we want to make a lie big and give credibility to those who accuse without evidence?" he asked. He also demanded "respect" for the victims and the investigation that was made of the facts.