On this day 20 years ago there was a terrorist attack that killed almost 200 people in Atocha, Madrid [x-post /r/TwentyYearsAgo]

by MonsieurA

29 comments

  2. That foto looks terrible. What amount of waste, lost lifes, caused tragedy and trauma…

  3. I can’t imagine how it must feel to be a first responder for something like that

  5. Second biggest terrorist attack in Europe according to wiki. One day you go to work and you die because of crazy people.

    I did not understand who exactly did it. Losing your loved one so randomly and not even see justice served is terrible.

  6. I remember hearing a continuous stream of ambulances running the streets that day. Then I turned on the TV and found out the reason.

    Fuck islamic terrorism.

  7. Now our Government, PSOE, with Pedro Sánchez as the leader, welcomes the responsibles in his coallition, so he can keep destroying the country a few more years.

    We need help in Spain. No joke. We are becoming Venezuela too fast.

    EDIT: to all the downvotes, are there terrorists in the current Spanish Government coallition or not? What is Bildu then?

  8. The enlightenment Islam brought to our people knows no bounds 🤩

  12. and since then, europes RULERS have decided to allow the invasion by tens of millions more of these peaceful, tolerant, hard working doctors and scientists into europe.

  15. My family were on holiday in Barcelona when this happened. The next day we came out of our hotel to the streets full of people demonstrating. They were holding white sheets of paper and had white ‘x’s painted over their mouths. The whole thing was very moving and eerie. Even as a child I was struck by how much pain the country felt.

  17. It was a horrible incident. Still remember reading about it in the news the day after it happened. Hope Europe never has to experience any more of these incidents in the future. RIP to the victims.

  19. Reminder: the Spanish media directly blamed ETA having zero sources to back it up to protect the government from the clear connection between the invasion of Iraq and this attack.

  21. I don’t see anything wrong, just diversity. Isn’t it good? I was always told it’s our strength.

  22. We Exmuslims have been warning you…

    “**I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved**, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip” ([Quran 8:12](https://quranx.com/8.12))

  24. These bastards weren’t caught beforehand because they didn’t call or “send” emails to communicate, they used email drafts in the same webmail account to communicate.

  25. My brother was this close to being on that train.

  26. My father left home late that day and missed the train. That same train exploded.

    The next day we went to the demonstration against the bombings, I was only 5 years old. Two million people in a city of three million took to the streets to demand justice.

  27. And yeah they still get to stay here illegally meanwhile I went through all those trouble for papers.

  28. i remember that day. We were “lucky”: The bomb exploded moments after leaving the Atocha station (is the central station for Cercanias service, the kind of train where the bomb was planted) that was crowded at the time the bomb exploded. Also, and take this part with caution, if i dont recall wrong there was a students strike that day, so there were less people than usual

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