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Mayor of Madrid distances himself from other Partido Popular leaders and the M11 conspiracy theories
By h.b. - Nov 8, 2007 - 8:34 AM
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The Partido Popular Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón - Photo EFE
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Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón accepts the court summary in the case, as the Socialist party launches a 15 minute video highlighting how the PP has taken part in the conspiracy of alleged ETA involvement
The Partido Popular Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, has distanced himself from other leaders in the party by saying that, in his opinion, the court sentence in the case ‘established the limits’ of responsibility for the attacks.

‘Those responsible for March 11th are those named in the sentence, in their different degrees of guilt’, said Gallardón who even went as far as to say it was up to the judges and prosecutors to establish if there were any more responsibilities or not.

His comments fly in the face of those made since the sentence by the party leader Mariano Rajoy, and other party bigwigs, Eduardo Zaplana and Ángel Acebes.

Meanwhile the PSOE Socialist party has issued a 15 minute video which contrasts the conspiracy declarations made by top members of the Partido Popular with the textual findings of the sentence in the case.

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The General Director of the National Police and Guardia Civil, Joan Mesquida, has said that the sentence from the Madrid Train Bombings trial has resulted in all the conspiracy theories on what had happened and who was responsible have proved to be unfounded.

Mesquida quoted one such theory, voiced before the sentence, and repeated this week from José María Aznar, who holds to his claim that those behind the attack ‘are not in remote deserts’.

Spain’s top policeman was speaking at a press conference in Washington at the start of a three day visit to inspect United States security procedures. He added that it was now time to look to the future, and that Spain would take any threat from Islamic terrorism seriously.

He also underlined the ‘intense relation’ as he put it, between Spain and the United States.


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