Madrid train bombings trial wraps up
Defense attorneys for an Egyptian accused of masterminding the 2004 Madrid train bombings and a Moroccan who allegedly planted the explosives demanded their acquittals on the last day of trial for 28 people charged in the terror attacks.
The attorneys were the last to make closing arguments in the four-month trial, Europe’s biggest terrorism court case. Most of the defendants later proclaimed their innocence in final statements.
Prosecutors say a homegrown cell of Islamic terrorists staged the attacks in retaliation for the presence of Spanish troops in Iraq. Ten bombs ripped through four packed commuter trains March 11, 2004, killing 191 people and injuring more than 1,800.
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