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.

Exactly a decade ago, in mid-2015, a terrorist cell was taking shape in Ripoll. It was made up of nine young men and led by an imam. They were young (between 15 and 26 years old at the time) and there were four pairs of brothers. Two years later, one of them drove a van at full speed, destroying everything in his path, on Barcelona's La Rambla. Hours later, other members of the cell sowed panic with knives on the Cambrils seafront. It was August 2017, and sixteen people were murdered. What led nine young men, most of them raised in Catalonia, to embrace jihadism? Today we are a little closer to answering this question with certainty.

The congressional commission charged with investigating the August 17 jihadist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils has summoned Ali Yassine, former president of the Annour Mosque in Ripoll, to testify this Tuesday. As the leader of the town's Muslim community, he was responsible for hiring Abdelbaki es-S. Es-Satty would end up being the mastermind behind the attacks perpetrated by young people from Ripoll. After the attacks, the former president of the mosque claimed that he had never seen any signs of radicalization in the imam, and he reiterated this today.