The M Association Affected by Terrorism presented in the trial that a report was held, in which it was stated that the decision to attack in Spain was taken for reasons of revenge, for having dismantled the Al Qaeda network in and the group of anti-terrorist actions in which Spain had stood out in the nineties; but the final trigger came from Spain's participation in the Iraq war. The war of the Azores trio, against the massive weapons of the Iraqi regime. Bush and Blair apologized years later, but Aznar never did. Between : and : on March , , ten almost simultaneous explosions occurred on four trains.
Later, and after an attempt to deactivate it, the police detonated two devices that had not exploded; and a third that would allow the first investigations that led to the identification of the authors to begin. It was not the first jihadist attack perpetrated in Saudi Arabia Mobile Number List Spain; In there was the attack on the El Descanso restaurant that caused deaths. March , : elections three days after the attacks The explosions occurred at the Atocha-Cercanías, El Pozo del Tío Raimundo and Santa Eugenia stations in Madrid, resulting in deaths and nearly two thousand injuries. They were carried out by Al Qaeda and the Moroccan Islamic Fighting Group. In the ruling of October , , it was considered proven that the Madrid attacks were carried out by a jihadist cell, seven of whose members committed suicide in Leganés on April ,
The ruling of the National Court acquitted seven of the defendants, sentencing Otman El Gnaoui, Jamal Zougam and José Emilio Suárez Trashorras , , years, to sentences of thousands of years in prison, as a necessary collaborator for participating and facilitating the explosives. Three days later and against all odds, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero won the general elections. It was March , Three days before, on March , the largest terrorist attack in history had occurred in Spain and Europe. The general elections will be remembered for three reasons: the unexpected victory of the PSOE in the opposition, despite the fact that all the polls had almost unanimously predicted a victory, albeit narrow, for the Popular Party; the largest terrorist attacks ever committed in Spain, perpetrated three days before the elections; and the controversial actions of the Government of José María Aznar, in the hours after the attacks, accusing ETA of responsibility.