Social services aren't childsnatchers they'd tell LE if they had any children that were picked up in the immediate area.
True.
However, the time children identities to be checked can take a few days. In the meantime, the situation is quite chaotic, LE being overwhelmed by the work to do.
Remember, Spain is not the US !!
There are plans in place for the aftermath of terrorist attacks which include police working with social services so people can be reunited asap.
Hope you are right. However, in a similar situation in Paris, it took a few days to reunite a child with his family after being separated. Sure, Social Services told LE asap, but checking identities is what took longest.
LE doing their best in a very chaotic situation. Remember, Spain is not the US, so such check might be very swift in the US, slower in an European country.
Spain is not US !!
My issue with this is I think missing posters released just after terrorist attacks can start rumours and this can lead to false hope. False hope breaks my heart
That's why I always check with MSM and legitimate not for profit associations. Antena3 is a Spanish mainstream media and SOS Desaparecidos is the DN's Spanish partner.
In Spain, contrary to the US, you have to be authorized by the police to release a missing person poster when you are a MSM or a not for profit organization. If the Catalan police authorized the release, they have very good reasons to do so. They might even have asked the release themselves.
Reasons we can't know from behind our computers.
Had it been a missing poster from Facebook without any check by the police and a very legitimate Spanish not for profit organization, that would had been a very different story.
I hear that it breaks your heart, but if the police and legitimate sources authorize the release, they have very serious reasons for making such decision.
Also, I know that Spanish LE work very hard in a very complicated situation, but they have different rules than the US. So, it is certainly not as swift as you expect, not because Social Services are child snatchers who want to keep the children for themselves, but because the procedures and policies for identity checks can take time.
They do as quickly as possible, but it can take up to one week to complete all the necessary checks in such a chaotic situation. (from what I lived after Paris attacks, it took even two weeks to identify all people hospitalized under X)
