Spain marks 7th anniversary of terror attacks
Madrid: Spanish grabbed the flowers and the silent Friday as they observed the seventh anniversary of the bombings which killed 191 people on Madrid commuter rail system in the worst Islamic terrorist attack in Europe.
In the central Puerta del Sol, politicians, dressed in black placed a laurel wreath on a stone plaque etched in the memory of those killed and about 2000 people, injured 11 March 2004. They then watched a few minutes of silence.
Outside the city, granite monument was opened at the railway station of El Pozo, one of four sites where a total of 10 backpacks filled with explosives and shrapnel exploded inside a train in the morning rush hour.
At other sites, bustling Atocha station, the head of the association on March 11 victims, Pilar Manjon, said he was still hard to tell her about her son Daniel, who was assassinated 20 years old when the attack in the past tense.
"Once again, the other on March 11. Seven years have passed, and it seems like life is just a constant stream. But this is not true," said Manjon, holding several red carnations. "Not a day passed without any old memories or the pain of broken lives. We have not yet learned to speak in past tense. We still can not say." I had a son, brother, husband. "
In 2007, the court found 21 of 28 defendants who were tried in the case of the bombing, many of them Moroccans. They were found guilty on charges ranging from possession of weapons of mass murder. But three of the 21 were later acquitted on appeal in the Supreme Court.
The initial verdict said the cell acted to wage jihad, or holy war. He says nothing about the support of the then Spanish government on the Iraq war and military presence in Afghanistan as a reason for the attack - the assertion that the rebels claim that they acted on behalf of al-Qaeda have been made in the video was found two days after the bombing.
The Conservative government in power at the time of the attack have repeatedly pointed to the Basque separatists as the main suspects in the bombing, even after evidence of Islamic involvement emerged, and the ruling Popular Party was defeated in the general elections held three days after the attacks, despite going into the vote, a clear favorite, to win a third consecutive term.
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