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Spain remembers the victims of the 2004 attack in Madrid

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Relatives, associations of victims, social agents, political and institutional representatives they remembered this Saturday 193 people of 17 nationalities killed jihadist cell on March 11, 2004 in the

Spain remembers the victims of the 2004 attack in Madrid

Relatives, associations of victims, social agents, political and institutional representatives they remembered this Saturday 193 people of 17 nationalities killed jihadist cell on March 11, 2004 in the capital of Spain.

terrorists they posted eleven bombs V four trains and also caused more 1800 woundedthe largest attack carried out in the European Union (EU).

weeks later committed suicide with explosives in a house in Leganes (Madrid) during a police operation that killed an agent.

It was the EU that declared 11 March the European Day of Victims of Terrorism.

“We will not succumb to the fear that the terrorists are trying to provoke by committing their atrocities. The purpose of the terrorists is to divide our society. We will not allow this,” the European Commission warned in a statement this year.

tribute they began with an official proposal from the city council and the regional government of Madrid on a sign of the central solar gate memory of the victims and rescue services.

Other acts of respect followed each other at the stations where the bombs exploded, as well as in the Forest of Remembrance, consisting of olive trees and cypresses that store memory of the deceased.

The Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reaffirmed the strength of democracy and the value system of Spanish society “in the face of fanaticism, extremism and intolerance.”

Opposition leader, conservative Alberto Nunez Feijoo, said that a “dignified and capitalized” policy involves the permanent memory of the victims and their families.

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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