First, the good news: there is no longer anyone on the critically injured list for the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. The Catalan medical services have managed to move those victims out of intensive care at the different hospitals where the injured are still being cared for. Although it was believed and proclaimed from official offices that we "have destroyed the health system", the result, luckily, has not been as such. The Catalan emergency services are also the anonymous heroes of these days. An honour that they share, among others, with the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police), however much they find themselves in the biggest and most despicably orchestrated smear campaign of a police corps that one can recall after any terrorist attack: in four days they dismantled a cell of 12 terrorists, who were shot dead or arrested in different police operations.
The overall front page of Spain's printed press converts the role of the media into a unique case and worthy of study. Like the support of the AMI (Spain's Association of News Media), that groups together Spain's daily newspapers, and then in defense of the freedom of speech, it protects a newspaper that has an interest in fabricating a document to include an official letterhead, and which it attributes first to the CIA and then afterwards to another security agency of the United States. There will be those who say that everything goes. Whilst it is like this, many others must say that not everything goes. As an exercise of distraction and journalistic intoxication, we could continue talking about this same old pamphlet in question or whether there were errors from the security corps. But perhaps the moment has arrived, how it happens when attacks are produced, to start speaking about the terrorists, and start to be informed about Abdelbaqui es Satty, the imam of Ripoll, whose murky past the Spanish police had held in an extensive dossier since 2005, yet for the Catalan police he was a big unknown.
It is Satty who was the brain, who recruited and indoctrinated in record time a group of young men in Ripoll of Moroccan origin, and who ended up forming the jihadist cell. His role is surrounded by an important police silence. Nothing is filtered, nothing more is known. And who could inform with knowledge of this will perhaps do so at the Audiència Nacional (National Court), which is the one that has instructed the case. But not to the press. Satty died in Alcanar in the explosion of the gas cylinders on the eve of the attack on Barcelona and, consequently, we will not know anything about him. Is the file closed? It shouldn't be. There's a corpse but many questions remain unanswered about Satty. The terrorist X of this puzzle and of the tragic attack. And the subject of Es Satty, the planner of the attacks as far as we know - what to say? - everything else is minor. And above all, very interesting.