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Sixth anniversary of the Madrid Train Bombings
By h.b. - Mar 11, 2010 - 10:01 AM
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192 died on this day six years ago in the attacks carried out by Islamic radicals
More than a dozen events will take place today Thursday on the 6th anniversary of the Madrid Train Bombings which saw 192 deaths and more than 2,000 injured on the commuter trains heading to Atocha station.
PP leader of the Madrid region, Esperanza Aguirre, has placed a reef in remembrance in the Puerta del Sol at 9am, accompanied by representatives of the victims’ associa
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Madrid City Hall will also see councillors from the political parties placing flowers on the monument to the victims at Atocha at 10am and at 11am in the Ateneo.
Union leaders and the actress Pilar Bardem have organised another event, and a further one will be held in the forest of the absent in the El Retiro Park after noon.
Congress will pay its respects at 1230 with a reading of the universal declaration of human rights, and King Juan Carlos will be meeting personally with some of the victims in the accident at the Zarzuela palace at 1845 this evening.
Meanwhile Congress has approved an initiative from the president of the chamber, José Bono, to declare June 27 as the Day for the Victims of Terrorism.
Sub secretary in the Interior Ministry, Justo Zambrana, said in Brussels on Thursday that there would be a new victims of terrorism law in Spain ‘soon’.
Meanwhile El Mundo has revealed that an Ecuadorian woman, Lorena Candelario, who was never on the trains or injured, has been living a lie since 2004. She has received Spanish Nationality, public housing and dozens of thousands of Euro in compensation, as well as a medal.
Her case has now been put by the Ministry for the Interior in the hands of the Attorney General.