Madrid (EFE).- Madrid remembers today its biggest terrorist massacre, the attacks of March 11, 2004, in which the explosion of 11 bombs placed in 4 trains in Madrid by a jihadist cell killed 192 people and left more than 1,800 injured travelers.
Associations of victims, politicians, social agents, citizens and relatives of the deceased will commemorate on this occasion the 19th anniversary of the attacks with various events starting early in the morning.
As every year, the association 11M Affected by Terrorism will pay homage at the Atocha station with the participation of the general secretaries of the CCOO and UGT of Madrid and the president of the association, Eulogio Paz.
Before, at Puerta del Sol, at the regional government headquarters, another act will take place at 9 in the morning next to the plaque that remembers the deceased, the wounded and those who helped them that day.
And as has become traditional, at noon, in El Retiro Park, the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) will remember the terrorist action together with the 191 cypress and olive trees that make up the Forest of Remembrance.
An act, led by the president of the AVT, Maite Araluce, and which is expected to be attended by the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; the mayor of the capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida, and the government delegate, Mercedes González, among others.
The Association 11M-Affected by Terrorism will also hold the usual events in the other points where the bombs exploded in addition to Atocha: Calle Téllez, Santa Eugenia and El Pozo.
In total, 193 people of 17 different nationalities – the Spanish being the most numerous with 143 victims – lost their lives in the attacks: 34 on the train that exploded at the Atocha station; 63 as it passes through Calle Téllez; 65 at the Pozo station; 14 in Santa Eugenia and 16 in different hospitals, the last one in 2014, after remaining in a coma for 10 years.
To these was added the GEO policeman Francisco Javier Torronteras three weeks after the attack, on April 3, 2004, as a result of the injuries suffered when 7 members of the jihadist commando who carried out the massacre committed suicide using the explosives they stored in an apartment. from Leganes (Madrid).
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