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00:00Sabotage and human error. False theory spread over Spain's strange tragedy.
00:05Spanish.
00:10Scrolling from back-to-back train disaster, on Sunday evening near Adamouth, three carriers
00:15from a Nereo train heading to Madrid derailed, crossing over onto the other side of the
00:20road.
00:20They collided with an outgoing Renfe train traveling from Madrid to Madrid.
00:25They went to Velva, causing the front carriages of that train to collapse into an embankment.
00:30Later, another commuter train near Barcelona derailed, leaving the driver dead and
00:35another collided with a crane in Murcia.
00:37Almost immediately after the crashes,
00:40the conspiracy theory spread online.
00:42The primary claim that spread was that the crash was caused by the
00:45sabotage.
00:46Users blamed Russia and even Israel for this.
00:50Fact-checkers at Maltida pointed to a viral tweet that compared the crash with damaged
00:55tracks.
00:55The crash in Poland last year, which was linked to Russian sabotage.
00:59This theory exposes the crash.
01:00It was uploaded online in multiple languages and was pushed by Elon Musk's chatbot Grok.
01:05Which although mostly saying that sabotage had been ruled out, also falsely claimed that
01:09Spanish
01:10Spanish Transport Minister Oscar Puente had suggested foul play.
01:15The saddamage crash is unknown.
01:16But investigators have ruled out both sabotage and human error.
01:20with a probe focusing on a ray don't found fractured near a track switch.
01:25Other false narratives claim that Spain diverted millions of rail funding abroad.
01:30The road instead of maintaining its domestic tracks, particularly to Morocco and Uzbekistan.
01:35In reality, these are repayable loans tied to exports by Spanish companies.
01:40linked to the Ministry of Transport.
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