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Updated Monday, March 11, 2024-00:01

Today marks 20 years since the 11-M jihadist attack in Madrid

, the greatest terrorist infamy that Europe has suffered.

191 victims lost their lives due to the explosions, to which must be added the police officer who died in the suicide in Leganés and the young woman who died in 2014, after 10 years in a coma.

Shocked by the coup, society suffered a deep division, the origin of which was

political polarization when interpreting the events

.

With 11-M the bridges between the PP and the PSOE were broken and

A tension intensified that still feeds into the parties' communication strategies.

For many analysts, in fact, that was the seed of the current discord.

This anniversary has an unprecedented component:

Today is the statute of limitations for murders

.

No one else can be prosecuted for the facts.

The judicial process resulted in three direct convictions for the attack: three perpetrators, only one of them for planting the bombs, but no brains in a sentence that could not close all the unknowns that had been gathering outside the official version, as recognized in the conclusion of the summary.

In the investigation, Judge Juan del Olmo did not question the police thesis and, without doubts about the Islamist authorship, the Prosecutor's Office attributed the attack to Al Qaeda to support the political narrative of revenge for Spain's participation in the Iraq War. .

However, in its ruling, the court presided over by Gómez Bermúdez maintained that the authors had "ideological dependence" on Al Qaeda, but admitted that there was no "hierarchical relationship with other groups or leaders of the organization."

El Egipcio, Belhadaj and Haski - those accused as intellectual authors - were acquitted of their participation in the massacre.

The feelings of pain, unity and solidarity immediately following the tragedy were immediately perverted to give way to a political war.

Although there had been turbulent moments in the legislature such as the Prestige catastrophe and the Tinell Pact, two State pacts had also been signed, the Anti-Terrorist Pact, precisely, and the Justice Pact.

But

consensus on the moral bases of coexistence exploded in the 72 hours after the attack

.

The government of

Aznar

He could have called the Anti-Terrorist Pact and then he was not able to get out of the initial mistake of the Police of pointing out ETA.

Shoemaker

It was launched three days after

agitprop

that culminated in the demonstrations of the day of reflection in front of Genoa, in which the PP was blamed as a "murderer."

The confrontation was enormous.

And the gap between the right and the left has been, since then, very deep.

The enemies of the consensus of '78 entered through it, and began to enjoy unprecedented influence from Zapatero's first term in office.

The Government has used 11-M again these days to attack the opposition.

Twenty years later, the murders have expired and there is no social majority that demands more information.

11-M has closed the conscience of the Spanish people.

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