The ETA to the attacks with a bomb in the car park of Terminal 4 at Barajas Airport in Madrid.
attack is the first of nine months and marks the failure of the permanent ceasefire declared by ETA on March 22 last year. The bomb was very powerful and destroyed three of the four floors of parking. Ben three telephone calls had been warned of the explosion, place, time and license plate and type of car bomb, which had allowed the security services to take countermeasures, despite which 19 people were slightly injured, mostly police officers, and two, of Ecuadorian nationality, remain missing. The press cites intelligence sources according to which the call was very nervous and had forgotten to tell you the number plate and claimed responsibility on behalf of ETA, because of repeated telephone calls.
This is the year-end gift to the English ETA, which over the past surveys had expressed their concerns about the fate of the peace process bringing terrorism topped the main concerns for the country.
The President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, broke off all contact and negotiations with ETA, saying the attack is incompatible with dialogue and described as' bite off more than they have done wrong and useless to terrorists. "
The Secretary of the PP Mariano Rajoy called on the government to cease all attempts to agree with ETA, while the dissolved Batasuna spokesman Arnaldo Otegi said that "the process of resolving the conflict is not broken."
The attack came as a surprise government and political forces. ETA has challenged Zapatero but it is unclear which political sense to have this attack, threatening to bury forever the attempt to arrive at a solution negotiated. Especially if the two missing were found dead.
For the first time ETA broke a cease-fire without declaring it first with a statement.
unusual, then, is the dynamic retrieval of the van in which the bomb was placed. The owner, a Spaniard, was arrested in France on the vehicle 27 and released 30. So far, similar operations were always carried a few hours before the attacks.
The attack comes later than 15 days from the first informal meeting between representatives of the government and ETA that, without significant progress, confirmed their intention to continue the attempt at dialogue.
Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba, the first to speak, said that "there was no evidence of the attack," recognizing a mistake as the idea that the action meets the criteria ETA rational. The enemies of the peace process while the country gloating assists disappointed in what may be the destruction of the hope that it was finally on the right track to close in terrorism.
A photo gallery of the attack (from El País ) will find it here
