Today is October 1st, and for millions of Catalans, that October 1st eight years ago is and will always be unforgettable, with its simultaneous presence of police violence and the defense of the ballot boxes and computer programs, of hope and anxiety, of uncertainty and conviction, of fear and hope.

Every September for the past seven years, the nine teachers from the El Palacio Institute in San Andrés de la Barca who were singled out on October 1st relive the legal ordeal they suffered when they were accused of abusing the children of Civil Guards. The reason? If new students search for them on Google, the first results that appear are those of the legal case against them, which has since been closed. Also, the article where The World published his name, surname and photographs and that ended up on a cover that the then Cs leader, Albert Rivera, used to point them out as "separatist teachers." In November 2024 The last judicial file opened against the teachers was closed, who lament the "personal strain" and "enormous suffering" over these years, where they have felt alone and without support from either the Generalitat or the City Council. Now they want justice on two fronts: on the one hand, erasing the "infamous" digital footprint of the accusations against them on the internet and, on the other, achieving moral reparation for the damage that includes a plan to protect teachers from persecution for what they express in the classroom.

Does anyone know what happened to us? Does anyone know exactly what happened in the months before and immediately after the 1-O referendum? It's not that there's a lack of stories that describe, with little or no precision, the most obvious, most visible, most incontrovertible material facts. Nor are there any shortages of simplistic interpretations, conspiratorial approximations, and maliciously biased and self-exculpatory versions. But, of all this, what remains in our collective memory—and in our lack of memory—is a broken mirror of interpretations. A mess that has not only fragmented its memory but is also made up of pieces that don't even fit together. Reconstruction, for now, seems impossible.