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  • Spain paid homage Thursday to European victims of terrorism on the 17th anniversary of the Madrid train bombings, Europe's deadliest Islamist extremist attack. In the gardens of Madrid's Royal Palace, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and King Felipe VI led a ceremony under a clear blue sky attended by attack survivors and the families of victims. "Europeans must be united in solidarity and in the fight against terror, from wherever it comes," the king said, speaking from a podium next to a Spanish flag and that of the European Union. "Terrorism never wins," he said. "Democracy's triumph over terrorism is the triumph of freedom and reason, the triumph of the victims, the triumph of all of us." The European Union's date for commemorating terror victims, March 11, recalls the bomb attacks on that date in 2004 that killed 191 people and injured some 2,000 on four commuter trains heading for Madrid's Atocha station. The coordinated attack was claimed by militants who said they had acted on Al-Qaeda's behalf over Spain's role in the US-led invasion of Iraq. A 17-year-old boy and girl who were born on the day of the bombings opened the ceremony by reading the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As well as the king, two victims' relatives spoke at the event -- Spain's Tomas Caballero Martinez whose father was killed in 1998 by Basque separatist group ETA and Belgium's Philippe Vansteenkiste whose sister was killed the 2016 Brussels attacks claimed by the Islamic State group. "It is very difficult to accept that your entire family will be affected for the rest of their lives" by an attack, said Vansteenkiste. Elsewhere in Madrid people laid flowers and released white balloons at Atocha station in memory of the train bombing victims. A ceremony was also held at Madrid's Retiro Park, where flowers were placed in trees to remember a day that is known in Spain as 11M. ds/hmw/lc
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  • Spain honours terror victims on train attacks anniversary
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