The Madrid attacks continue to divide Spain

Spain commemorated the fourth anniversary of the Madrid attacks on Tuesday, March 11. The Spanish daily considers it "deplorable that those who insist on contesting the judicial investigation persist in their obsession. [Several conservative media sources and the Spanish right] have built up a wild conspiracy theory. Again yesterday, they [among others, the daily 'El Mundo' in an editorial] continued to attack the trial's verdict [that definitively ruled out the possibility that Basque terrorists were responsible]. The threat of Islamic terrorism is too present in Muslim countries and Western societies for all of society's attention and energy to be wasted on baseless presumptions. ... This creates a fatal confusion that, in Spain, has succeeded in influencing no small portion of public opinion. Among the democratic countries affected by Islamic terrorism, we are an exception."

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