SPAIN: Memorial concert is held in Madrid to remember the Madrid train and London bombings

Record ID: 357827

  • Title: SPAIN: Memorial concert is held in Madrid to remember the Madrid train and London bombings
  • Date: 11th March 2006
  • Summary: LAS ORCHESTRA STANDING/VARIOUS OF THE MINUTE OF SILENCE IN MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE MADRID MARCH 11 AND THE LONDON BOMBING VICTIM (4 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 26th March 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Spain
  • Country: Spain
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA8DF04YWZGXC0MB080BMMMOR8M
  • Story Text: The Victims of Terrorism Foundation organised a memorial concert on Friday (March 10) in Madrid's National Auditorium main symphony concert hall, titled "Madrid - London, in Memoriam." The concert was to remember the Madrid train bombings in March 2004 and the attacks in London last July. Spain's King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia attended.
    The second anniversary of the Madrid attacks on March 11, is expected to receive a more subdued commemoration than last year, when there were numerous high-profile events.
    To date, only one person -- then 16-years-old -- has been convicted in the attacks. He was the only minor charged in the case, and in November 2004, the youth pleaded guilty to transporting explosives stolen from a mine in northern Spain, and of collaborating with a terrorist group.
    The youth, whose identity was not made public, was sentenced to six years of juvenile confinement and five years of probation after that.
    Last week, Judge del Olmo, the investigating magistrate in charge of the case, ordered that nine of the adult suspects, who have spent almost two years in pre-trial prison, be brought to the National Court in central Madrid for hearings on the prosecutor's request to prolong their time in jail until the trial.
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