Spanish old politics, 11M
I'm realizing how this seems to really be disinformed outside Spainthe March 11th terror attacks in Madrid's trains weren't executed by ETA. ETA had nothing to do with it, it was al-Qaeda, as retaliation for the Spanish support to the war in Iraq
claiming ETA's authorship was a right-wing electoral conspiracy. general elections were going to be held a bunch of days after. there's papers and testimonies, they concluded "if ETA did it, we win the election, if jihadists did it, we might lose". and so, they decided to push that narrative, even though everything at that point already pointed at it not being ETA
fortunately everything got uncovered the following days, and everyone got really pissed off. even right-leaning people. demonstrations were spontaneously held via SMS chains. they lost in an incredible landslide (see picture).
and because of that, these days claiming that "11M was ETA" is essentially a right-wing dogwhistle, some claim it was a successful false flag attack in order to overturn the results of the election
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