In the afternoon of yesterday, March 11, Alcantarilla was the city chosen by the Victims of Terrorism Association, in the Region of Murcia, to carry out the commemoration of the European Day of Victims of Terrorism, which was attended by some The victims who live in our locality, along with the sewer and delegate in the Region of Murcia of the AVT, Remedios Miñano, Mayor Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía and several members of the Municipal Corporation, the Minister of the Presidency of the Government of the Region, María Dolores Pagán and the secretary general of said Ministry, Maria Robles, along with representatives of several civil and military institutions of Alcantarilla, among which were representatives of the Paratroop Veterans of the Air Force.
The Delegate of the AVT, Remedios Miñano, intervened and read the Manifesto that the Association had made, taking into account that Alcantarilla was one of the eleven cities throughout Spain was carried out, through the AVT.
Following the sings of the Hymn of Spain played by the Musical Group "Virgen de Gracia" Villareal (Castellón), to pass to the setting of a laurel wreath in memory of the victims, kept a minute of silence and with the trumpet Of the director of the Band of Horns and Drums "Centuriones de San Pedro" Alcantarilla, perform the Prayer Touch and move to the interventions of Mayor Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía and the Minister of Presidency, Maria Dolores Pagán.
The European Union dedicates the 11 of March to the memory of the victims of terrorist attacks, their families and friends.
March 11 is precisely the date on which the attack took place in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured 1800 people.
The one in Madrid, together with that of London on July 7, 2005 in which 50 citizens died, have been the most serious terrorist attacks perpetrated in the European Union.
Yesterday the Association of Victims of Terrorism also celebrated at national level the commemoration of the European Day of Victims of Terrorism, organized by the same, in the Park of Remembrance of the Retiro Park in Madrid.
The Region of Murcia also joined her and made it in Alcantarilla, along with ten other cities throughout Spain.
For Alcantarilla Mayor Joaquín Buendía, "the voice and memory of the victims are the best weapons to fight against terrorism. Terrorists want our silence, so that society will forget its horrible actions and murders, but if we keep remembering What they did, we force them to accept their guilt. Only in this way will justice be done with the victims, which is what they really want. "
"I am sorry that we are only concerned about terrorism when we have the threat very close to us." The most important thing is prevention. Keeping our lives secure and defended has sometimes been considered an attack on their liberties, and I I believe that it is the opposite: the main human right is the right to live and therefore it must always be protected. "
In Alcantarilla we have four victims of terrorism, specifically Jose Miñano Miñano, then sergeant of the National Police, in 1982, when on Sunday, October 31, he was wounded along with nine other comrades of the body in the attack in Vitoria - and that cost the life to the national police Francisco González Ruiz.
Yesterday he was in his wheelchair and we could count on the companero, the agent of the National Police who rendered the first aid, the also Murcia Alfonso Cánovas.
The relationship is continued by Antonio Frutos, Civil Guard wounded in the attack of the Casa Cuartel de Zaragoza December 11, 1987, along with his wife Carmen Ortuño.
Montserrat Morales Almarcha, widow of the National Police Rafael Leyva Loro, murdered by ETA on January 13, 1995, in Bilbao (Vizcaya), leaving six children orphaned.
And Margarita Poyo Nicolás, who suffered an ETA attack in Amorebieta (Vizcaya).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla