The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, stated this Thursday that the City Council is “already establishing the criteria” to distribute, among citizens who wish it and associations, those of the Atocha monument in memory of 11M, which was dismantled. for the expansion works on Metro line 11.
It was the Culture delegate, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, who announced in the last municipal plenary session that the City Council had decided to distribute the bricks of the monument, something about which the mayor was asked in the press conference after the Government Meeting .
In addition to pointing out that the City Council is “establishing the criteria” to distribute these pieces, Almeida has said, regarding the new 11M monument, that “negotiation is progressing, also between the Community of Madrid and the victims’ associations, to give them the place, the place and, above all, the memory they deserve.”
The mayor of the PP said this when asked by journalists after the press conference of the Government Board, after which the institutional event to remember the 193 victims of 11M, the largest terrorist attack, is on the councilor’s agenda. on European soil so far in the 21st century, on the 20th anniversary of the event.
Regarding this event, Almeida said: “We, as the City Council, wanted to organize an institutional act of remembrance and tribute to the victims, to all their families and loved ones, because it is 20 years since the hardest and most difficult terrorist attack. that any capital in Europe has had.”
“I think it is a moment to be with the victims, to remember them, to be with their families, to understand the irreparable pain that still 20 years later, the wounds that this city still has as a consequence of that terrorist attack,” said Almeida. about this tribute made “in collaboration with all the victims’ associations”, to whom he thanked for their presence and their “outstanding participation” in the event.
