• Spain 17-A: open scars three years later

Despite the fact that the organizers of the institutional act in memory of the victims of the La Rambla and Cambrils attacks three years ago have prioritized sobriety in the minute of silence, while El cant dels ocells was playing , and the floral delivery right on the puinto in the one who stopped the terrorist van, a group of people, relatives of the victims and their colleagues, have taken the opportunity to make demands . The main one is the slogan "we want to know the truth" chanted before the minute of silence and after the authorities left their passwords in reference to the possible links between the imam of Ripoll, the ideologist behind the attacks, with the CNI,an argument that a good part of the independence movement clings to to point to Spanish responsibilities in the attack.

Dressed in T-shirts and posters with the photo of the three-year-old Rubí boy, Xavier, killed in the attack, with pins in the shape of wings or masks with this symbol, relatives of this victim and people who support them have chanted "investigation" and to know "the truth", turning a sober act into a vindication. The minor's father, represented in the process by the JxCat deputy and lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, promotes a campaign to face the trial that must be held at the beginning of next year in the National Court and to thoroughly investigate the alleged implications of the State in the attack and some pro-independence groups support it, as could be seen in a couple of banners that accompanied the participants. In this sense, he took advantage of the event to talk with some of the authorities and distribute a pin with wings in memory of the minor. The relatives also demand that a commission to investigate the attack be created in Congress.

In addition, at the end of the event and in the presence of representatives of Vox, several people directly blamed Spain for these attacks. However, there were also attacks on the Generalitat since relatives of the victims regret that it did not accuse the three accused of murder for murder since, in case of conviction, compensation can only be requested from the State if there is responsibility for this crime or for injuries during the attack.

Before the authorities delivered their family flowers to the victims. After them it was the turn of the political representatives such as the President of the Generalitat, Quim Torra; the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau; the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, the President of Congress, Meritxell Batet, the President of the Parliament, Roger Torrent; the vice president of the Government, Pere Aragonès; the consellers Meritxell Budó, Miquel Buch and Esther Capella, and the Government delegate in Catalonia, Teresa Cunillera, the Deputy Mayor of Barcelona Albert Batlle, or the deputies Nacho Martín Blanco (Cs) and Alejandro Fernández (PP), among other members of all institutions. Responsible for the security forces and other entities also delivered their flowers.

Before the event, the mayor of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, stressed that this celebration is a way of not forgetting the victims. In addition, she also asked the Government "the maximum efforts" to find out the contacts of the CNI with the imam of Ripoll since "we need her as a democratic society and in particular for the victims who have suffered so much." In statements to Rac1, the mayor asked for an investigation commission in Congress on 17-A and urged the PSOE to join the proposal and added that the three prosecuted for the attack were accused by the Barcelona City Council of belonging to an organization terrorist criminal , although they are not murder since they are not material authors. However, it does not rule out that it can be requested throughout the trial.

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