Vox has only been defending the conspiracy theory about the jihadist attacks of March 11, 2004 when 21 years of the massacre have just been completed in which 192 people were killed and more than 2,000 were injured. In 2007, the National Court confirmed the Islamist authorship of the attack that exploded multiple bombs in several nearby train stations in Madrid, condemned 22 people and ruled out any participation of ETA. It was the government of José María Aznar who maintained the authorship Etarra during the following days of the attack and leaders of the PP as well as media on the right tried to keep that theory alive for years, only in order to attack the PSOE and the left. But on the 21st anniversary, Vox has tried to discredit the truth judged.
The formation of the extreme right that Santiago Abascal chairs returned on Tuesday to the burden with a campaign in social networks feeding the doubt and demanding “knowing the whole truth”, although 18 years ago it was judicially accredited that it was the work of jihadist commands of Al Qaeda. “As every year, we are on the side of the victims who ask to know the whole truth about the worst terrorist attack in our history. Memory, dignity and justice for all victims of terrorism, ”Vox leaders demanded in X. The person in charge of emphasizing these doubts was Vox’s parliamentary spokeswoman, Pepa Millán, who in an appearance in Congress regretted that the “crimes have prescribed” and that “the main evidence, such as wagons, are destroyed.” “Unfortunately, 21 years later, you still don’t know who the intellectual author of those attacks was,” Millán said.
But Millán did not stay there and directed his darts against the former government president and leader of the PSOE, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, ensuring that his victory, “propitiated”, according to Vox, “thanks to the attack”, then “fulminated the reconciliation between Spaniards, covered the wings that were given to the coup separatism and included ETA in the institutions for the institutions for humiliation of the victims of terrorism.” After “solidarity” with the families of the victims, Millán sentence: “There is no more betrayal than not doing justice and we from here want to know everything that happened that March 11”.
To that same theory was also pointed out in X the Vox spokesman at the Madrid City Council, Javier Ortega Smith. “The victims and their families deserve answers and the recognition that should never be missing. Spain deserves to know the truth, once and for all, ”he said.
The commemorative acts of the attack held on Tuesday also reflected the division that persists between the parties, the central government, and the victims’ associations themselves. As usual, in Madrid there were three acts chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso and the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, who went to all: the one organized by the Community of Madrid at the Puerta del Sol, headquarters of the regional government, in which there were no speeches; A second at the Atocha-Cercanías station in memoriam of the victims in which a floral offering was made, organized by the 11M Association affected by terrorism and the union organizations UGT and CCOO; And a third in the MEMORY Forest, of the Retiro Park, to commemorate the European day of the victims of terrorism, organized by the AVT.
The Government delegate in Madrid, Francisco Martín, who had not received a formal call from the Ayuso government to attend the act of the Puerta del Sol, was presented on his own. Martín assured journalists that a decision of “exclusion like that, of division, is portrayed alone”, but avoided entering the controversy. “Today we have all gathered at the Puerta del Sol, I say all. We have come to the Puerta del Sol to pay respect, to give respect and accompany the victims of the greatest tragedy that our region has suffered, ”he said. The mayor of Madrid, however, launched his polish and justified his exclusion ensuring that the delegate of the Sánchez Government has been declared ‘Non Grata’ in Madrid institutions because “Insult and seriously offends” the region and the capital. “It does not break institutional relationships that wants to maintain them, but the one who insults.” “It is not possible to confuse the government delegation with a person who systematically attacks Madrid,” he said later.
While Vox remains in his thirteen that “the truth” of the 11M, the PP now, now led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has ended up assuming the unfortunate mistake made by the government of José María Aznar when the events happened. That executive said that behind the massacre was ETA, although a few hours after the attack the numerous evidence collected by the National Police and the Ministry of the Interior itself – then directed by Ángel Acebes – already pointed in the direction of jihadist commands. Finally, the National Court Judgment ruled out at all times any link with the Basque terrorist band.
Despite this the Faes Foundation, chaired by Aznar, continued insisting last year in a statement that “no official document never came to the Government to definitively discarded the authorship Etarra and affirmed without hesitation the jihadist responsibility.” “We do not shut up certain facts, nor accept repeated lies,” said the text. The address of the PP then hastened to close ranks with Aznar and attack the PSOE, which criticized the statement. The general secretary of the party, Cuca Gamarra, said it was not “the day” to “attack who at that time was in charge of the Government of Spain”, or “to all those who had to face those days.”
Now, Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s party, despite admitting the reality of the facts, continues to be publicly said that the 11M attacks were perpetrated by jihadist terrorists. Both Ayuso and Almeida limit themselves to qualifying 11m as “the greatest attack in the history of Spain”, while launching awards for victims, their relatives, emergency services, health personnel and all citizens who assisted them in one way or another. They did so last year in their speeches during tributes for the previous anniversary. This year, in the act at the Puerta del Sol none of them took the floor.
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