Saturday, March 13th:

Saturday, March 13th: Day of Reflection that Saturday and there were indications, in some cases developed by the media, that pointed increasingly harder to blame Islam, yet the government insisted on not rule out ETA as the main avenue of investigation. Also, several foreign media give the hypothesis of Islamic terrorism more relevant to the hypothesis that ETA. Most people knew that it might be an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist attack. Opposition political parties questioned the government's information management, leading members of the PSOE declared his fear that the government tried to postpone the release of such foregone conclusion until Monday in order to protect the impact on voters, and is published United Left statement to the effect that the Government would be manipulating information to avoid being linked to the Iraq war.Joseph White, by then, PSOE deputy in Congress, the SER states belonging to the PRISA group: "This would not have happened if my party had been governing, making a political statement on the so-called day of reflection . The World newspaper published an indepth interview with the candidate, Mariano Rajoy, in which he says have "moral conviction" that ETA was the author of the attacks. Later he would know that at 13h noon, Jos Manuel Garc a Varela, chief information officer of the Guardia Civil met with the Minister Acebes and Secretary of State for Security to inform them of the arrests that were about to occur . 13:45 A murder occurs in Pamplona Angel Berrueta by a national police, who was off duty, and his son, after a discussion of women's political police, who had tried to force him to put up a sign against ETA in his bakery.This incident occurred in Pamplona and other Basque cities. At midday, the government spokesman, Eduardo Zaplana, insists that ETA is the main area of research. The SER and media group PRISA, contradicting the government spokesman, reports that according to the CNI (National Intelligence Center) research focuses 99 by radical Islamic groups. And then, with the five detainees and the police station in Canillas, belies the director of the CNI to be assured that the major route of research remains ETA. In this atmosphere of confusion, SMS strings start and calls from Internet forums to concentrate at the sites of PP. At 18.00 pm are beginning to target thousands of people at the headquarters of PP.The slogans that were chanted, mostly, like: "What we tell the truth!", "Liars!", "Before voting, we want to know!", "Aznar, you know it!" " Spain does not deserve a government that lies ", but also could be heard other than with Aznar government linked the war in Iraq. The SER, at 1830, reports: "The news is in the streets of Madrid Genoa against the PP headquarters where hundreds of people are manifesting spontaneously. Are 3,000 or 4,000 people ... ". CNN and TV3 broadcast images of concentrations . Mariano Rajoy, PP candidate for president, called the demonstrations "facts seriously undemocratic ... that aim to influence and coerce the will the electorate on the day of reflection ".The People's Party complained to the Central Electoral Board, as the day before the election is a day of reflection, and therefore not allowed any pronouncement by partisan political statements or ads or ask for the vote.The Central Electoral Board (JCE) outlawed the demonstrations the day after passing the actions to the DPP and the Constitution were to act against anyone. Immediately after the declaration of Mariano Rajoy appeared before the public then PSOE spokesman Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, said: "The Spanish people deserve a government that does not lie tothem, tell them the truth." Such as: "direct, special form, the citizens to maintain the serenity that have been showing these last days. " concentrations were also in other cities, in the case of Madrid, demonstrators moved then to the Puerta del Sol and Atocha. In Barcelona, a march of 150 people, which began at 19.40 in the Rambla de Canaletas, increased in number up to 3,000 people before becoming a demonstration in the Plaza de Sant Jaume.Thousands of protesters gathered outside the headquarters of the PP in the same city.