Advertisement

Ecuadorean terror victims will get Spanish citizenship

1:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Ecuador| Immigration| Spain

3 Jan 2007

02_wo_spain_blast_4.jpgSpain was rocked Saturday by a bombing at Terminal 4 of Madrid’s international airport, Barajas, in what looks to be the end of a truce between ETA and the Spanish government. Two of the victims in the attack were Ecuadorean immigrants, and now Spain is promising to grant the family members of the missing Spanish citizenship:

López Aguilar [Labor and Justice Minister] reminded the victims’ families that “the first time that terrorism hit foreign residents in Spain was with the March 11th attacks,” and that in this as well as that event the government “will do everything to make sure the family members receive Spanish citizenship.”

“The two missing men are being searched for with insistence and in an effort that will not stop,” he said.


The Minister also assured the families of the two men, Carlos Alonso Palate and Diego Estacio, that the perpetrators of the crime will be brought to justice.

While rescuers are still looking for the men, hope of finding them alive is quickly fading. However, Diego Estacio’s girlfriend, also an Ecuadorean citizen, survived the attack and was able to recount how the event unfolded.

Update: AP reports that Palate’s body has been found.

Via / 20 Minutos

Comments are closed.

Hola!

VivirLatino is a daily publication published by 2 Mujeres Media, dedicated to featuring all the latest politics, culture, entertainment of interest to the diverse and influential Latino and Latina community in the U.S.

About | Advertise with us | Contact | Twitter

  • AmeRICAN: Calle 13 is a bad luck charm brought on Puerto Rico ex-Boxing Champion Miguel Cotto a BEATING by Pac [...]
  • Maegan La Mala: I don't think so [...]
  • Maegan La Mala: I was thinking about this...how the two are connected [...]
  • Maegan La Mala: Well I certainly don't condone an eye for an eye politics and don't think that that kind of "justice [...]
  • Raymond Lee: This is an outrage, again a young gay man attacked and killed and the fact that they where gay or bi [...]