The contempt of the Government's partners for the civil guards of Barbate amplifies the institutional silence after the drug traffickers' murders. The PSC and the independence movement prevent an institutional declaration in Parliament and do not join the request for a minute of silence.

In the Basque Country and Navarra, nationalist institutions turn their backs on the Barbate guards. In Catalonia, not even the president of the Catalan Government, Pedro Sánchez, has condemned the murder.