Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont denounced on X the documentation on the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils in August 2017, declassified by the Spanish government.
I have even more questions and much more concern.
First of all, the former Catalan leader decried the lack of surveillance and monitoring of “dangerous people directly linked to jihadism and the financing of terrorism.” He also noted that there was “a lot of information missing to declassify.”
The Director of Spain’s National Intelligence Centre (CNI) assured during the parliamentary speech that “during the time in which contacts and the investigation into Es Satty were maintained, not even the slightest indication was obtained that could pose a risk or threat to security,” despite a series of terrorist actions, Puigdemont stressed.
More public resources have been spent investigating the delirium of the alleged Russian plot than on following a radical individual clearly linked to jihadism.
He also stated that the spying on the Spanish government was carried out not by “a radical Islamist connected to terrorist circles, who ends up preparing one of the most serious attacks we have had in Catalonia,” but by Pegasus, a spyware developed by the Israeli cyber-arms company.
Responsibilities need to be clarified, because due to the poorly done work there have been 16 deaths and numerous injuries.
Barcelona and Cambrils were the latest Spanish cities hit by jihadist terrorism on 17 and 18 August 2017. The attacks came back into the spotlight with the start of the trial at the end of 2020.
