Scenes from a Spanish Disaster
A demonstrator dressed as a Guantanamo prisoner protests in Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol, March 13, 2004. The demonstrators were calling for an explanation from the Popular Party (PP) Secretary General and Prime Ministerial candidate Mariano Rajoy as to their conviction of ETA’s involvement in the deadly March 11, 2004 bombings. REUTERS/Andrea Comas
A woman hold a banner reading ‘Could this picture have cost 200 deaths?’ during a silent march through central Barcelona March 12, 2004. Traumatized Spaniards voted in droves in a general election thrown wide open by a new claim that al Qaeda rather than Basque separatists was behind the Madrid train bombs that killed 200 people last week. (Albert Gea/Reuters)
A man looks at flowers and a sign left in memory of the bomb victims at El Pozo train station on the eve of the general election in Spain and two days after rail bombings which left 200 dead and over 1,400 injured. The sign reads: ‘Aznar, the answer of Afghanistan and Iraq is here’.