EL PAÍS’s investigation into the footprint of pedophilia in the Spanish Church is, like all the great stories of this profession, a mixture of obsession and big-time thinking. When journalist Soledad Gallego-Díaz took over the direction of this newspaper in 2018, she asked to investigate the abuses. The award-winning film Spotlight two years earlier had focused on the work of The Boston Globe to uncover the dimension of the scandal in the American city. Other journalistic works addressed mass cases in Ireland, Germany or France. Was Spain an exception?
The germ of the investigation into the pedophile scandal in the Church: “We were the last hope for the victims”
