Many netizens took for granted that the Spanish state had paid the ransom for aid workers and expressed their dissatisfaction, sometimes accusing the aid workers of being reckless and seeking their own misfortune. 
Raia wengi wa Mtandao hawakujali kuwa serikali ya Kihispania ilikuwa imelipa fidia kwa ajili ya wafanyakazi hao na wakaonyesha kutoridhika kwao, wakati mwingine wakiwalaumu wafanyakazi hao kwa kutokuogopa hatari na kujitafutia matatizo yao wenyewe.