OPINION

In one of the most controversial cases in Spain, the media acted not as agents for sharing information, filtered and directed in a correct way, but as agents for divulging details that were not necessary and that, in my opinion, were part of the family privacy of those to whom the information belonged.

 

The use of the information shared was badly given, it was no longer important to inform, with selling being central. The media sought the most macabre, the most shocking and the most descriptive to win audiences. Little did they really care about the pain that the families might be feeling.

 

On the other hand, the families were also open to the whole circus that was set up. Their participation in all these television programmes and all the interviews they gave, with the supposed aim of finding the girls and appealing to others, was nothing more than a need to show themselves and make themselves visible.

 

At a time when mourning should be done in private and taken as personal, it became public, in plain sight, ungenuine and undermined by bare interventions on the part of the presenters.

 

The development of conspiracies did not help, taking Fernando Garcia as an easy target, restless and creating narratives that, even if they were true, would cease to be. His recklessness led to a serious case losing its way.

 

The fact that Juan Ignacio Blanco later said that he had in his possession a video proving the theory and exposing the culprits, a video that was never shown, in my opinion tarnished his credibility as a journalist.

 

In terms of the forensic team, the contradictory evidence in the autopsies and the lack of photographs of the bodies being removed, lead one to think that the case was being delimited by someone higher up.