The third film in the ‘Daggers in the Back’ series was recently released on one of the streaming platforms, a saga that rediscovers the spirit of classic TV films from the 70s, with investigators as unforgettable as Lieutenant Colombo. He … The pattern is recognizable: a long introduction in which the different characters in the plot are presented, followed by the murder of one of them and the rapid identification of a presumed culprit. It is then that the detective appears, in this case played by “007” Daniel Craig, who begins a complex investigation in which he excludes none of the protagonists.
In the film, the detective You can’t access everyone’s WhatsApp messageswhich would undoubtedly provide him with relevant information, and he must find out who committed the crime, but also how and why he did it.
José Manuel Cuenca, former president Mazón’s confidant, said the other day that “WhatsApp has no soul.” I want to think he was referring to the fact that its meaning, in many cases, is more than interpretable. However, today we base many surveys on precisely these types of communications, often carried out as if they were casual conversations, but which are recorded on our mobile devices.
Several senior socialist officials cried foul when they learned that the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, had sent the judge only the messages that Mazón had sent him, and not those he had written to him. In a way, they are right, since a conversation in which only one party is known It’s even more difficult to interpret. But it is striking that some of those who considered it normal for the former state attorney general and others involved to even delete messages with the fruit bowl are now showing just as much zeal.
Regardless, during the second week of January, Feijóo will, surprisingly, have the opportunity to explain to the judge the conversations he had with Mazón that fateful day. Eventually, she will be able to do so from her office, despite the initial reluctance of the judge, who seemed to prefer an in-person appearance in court.
I am not an expert in law and, from my political thinking, I do not agree that in Spain practically even the bailiff who opens the door of the Congress of Deputies is restricted, with the different judicial treatment that this implies. But the truth is that the judge asks messages exchanged between two gaugesone of them without any responsibility for emergency management, as is the case of Feijóo.
I want to think that, given that in one of the messages Mazón indicates having spoken with government officials about the management of the emergency, some of them who have direct powers in this area, such as President Sánchez, will also be called to testify to know the content of these conversations.
But we will have to wait for Judge Dana to complete her investigation to try to understand it in its entirety. Perhaps in the end we will be surprised, like in the film, when the detective puts the pieces together and, with the help of small clues, manages to discover the unexpected culprit.
However, it appears that this investigation is not equally excluding all possible perpetrators, but rather that evidence is being sought with particular determination to demonstrate that Mazón was responsible, in one way or another, for the crime. late sending of ES-Alert. We sometimes try to put a single name in the face of the incompetence of many officials. Beyond the lost WhatsApp, I have the feeling that many public services and servers are not worth what they cost us. This problem cannot be solved by crucifying a single person, but by taking action to improve these public services.
Concerning many WhatsApp messages that we write and which today can constitute conclusive proof, I am left with a sentence from the detective played by Craig: “It is dangerous to confuse speaking without thinking with telling the truth.” I would add that sometimes a WhatsApp can be more harmful than a stab in the back.
Coda. This weekend we again had significant rainfall in our town and two messages were sent to the population to warn of the risk. This makes sense to me and unless they are abused and the effect of Pedro and the wolf is generated. Technology gives us this opportunity and it should be used when necessary. There is no other choice than to remember that a disaster like that of Dana made it possible to introduce prevention and action protocols that had not been taken into account before.
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