Overview
- Interior presented SASPAT as a single access point for administrative, psychological and legal support, with active outreach to affected people and a program of prevention and awareness activities.
- The service is housed in the Interior Department’s Security and Cross-Cutting Policies cabinet under director Alba Alfageme, based at the Barcelona headquarters.
- Operations are slated to begin in early 2026 with an initial team of an administrative worker, a psychologist and a jurist.
- Authorities estimate about 500 people in Catalonia have never been contacted by the administration, roughly half linked to the 2017 La Rambla and Cambrils attacks.
- The move revives a victims office closed in 2011 under Artur Mas, and advocates including Robert Manrique and Javier Martínez welcomed the step as long overdue.