Madrid, Mar 11 (EFE).- Associations of victims, politicians, social agents, citizens and relatives remember this Saturday the 192 deceased by the explosion of eleven bombs placed in four trains in Madrid on March 11, 2004 by a jihadist cell , who weeks later blew himself up in a Leganés apartment where a GEO agent died.
The acts of homage to the nineteenth anniversary of the largest terrorist action in Spain will start at nine in the morning at Puerta del Sol next to the plaque that honors the deceased, the wounded and those who helped them that day.
As every year, the association 11M Affected by Terrorism will also 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.
At noon, in El Retiro Park, the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) will remember the terrorist action together with the 191 cypresses and olive trees that make up the Forest of Remembrance, on which the assistants will place flowers and will star in a balloon release whites.
The president of the AVT, Maite Araluce, will read a manifesto in defense of truth, justice, memory and dignity in the presence, as the organization has confirmed, of 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 other authorities. Likewise, the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will attend.
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 in the Pozo station; 14 in Santa Eugenia and 16 in different hospitals, the last one in 2014, after remaining in a coma for ten years.
These were joined by GEO policeman Francisco Javier Torronteras three weeks later, on April 3, 2004, as a result of the injuries sustained when seven members of the jihadist commando responsible for the massacre committed suicide using the explosives they stored in a Leganés apartment. (Madrid). EFE
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