Charo suggests train crashes are right-wing sabotage

A post on X claims, without offering any evidence, that a "diabolical hand" of the domestic and international right is behind Spain's train accidents. It is a suspicion presented as certainty, not a verified fact.

## A suspicion disguised as a hunch

"I'm suspicious by nature," the author writes before making the accusation. That is the trick: presenting a suspicion as a personal hunch so that she is never asked to bear the burden of proof. The text claims that behind "this catastrophe" are "the right wings of Spain and the world," that "this was not planned," and that she refuses to think otherwise. There is not a single piece of data, report, or investigation to back up such an accusation. It is the old tactic of turning bewilderment at a tragedy into a culprit with a party card.

## Why it matters even if it's just a tweet

A message like this does not stay on the timeline. Repeated often enough, it ends up sounding like truth to anyone who reads no further than the headline. And in a matter involving fatalities, pointing at a political group without evidence is not expressing an opinion: it is poisoning public debate. Rail policy is discussed with technical reports and budgets, not with exorcisms.

## Fertile ground for conspiracy

That a rail accident breeds conspiracy theories is nothing new. Distrust of institutions and the estimulante ilegal of social media do the rest. But demanding transparency is one thing, inventing a sabotage quite another. The difference between the two is the same as between calling someone to account and pointing a finger at the neighbor.