Families had been waiting over three years for punishment but instead they got acquittals and convictions of much lesser charges. Many of these people who had lost parents, children or spouses in the Madrid train bombings in 2004 plan to appeal the verdicts and sentences. "It was like a slap in our face," Jesus Abril, who lost his 19-year-old son Oscar. Three muslims were charged with the bombings of four busy commuter trains at rush hour, which killed 191 people and wounding 1,800 others. None of the three were charged with mass murder and one of the men were acquitted altogether. The two ringleaders were convicted of a lesser charge. Some of the men only got 12 years sentences. Of the 28 people who were charged, seven of the cases were acquitted for lack of evidence. “Abril, a 54-year-old former teacher, attended each of the 58 trial sessions, and was in court to hear the verdicts.” Abril along with the others who lost family members couldn’t believe the verdicts. Some of us were crying, hysterical, angry. Others were speechless," Abril said Thursday. "The general response was to think how easy, how cheap it is to kill in Spain." Seven purposed ringleaders blew themselves up to avoid arrest.
This story amazes me, these people shouldn’t have got away that easy with mass murder. They killed all those people and basically got away with it. Something should have been done to these murderers.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/01/madrid.trial.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch
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