Newspaper library Aguirre, after the hell of Bombay: "I went out barefoot stepping on pools of blood"
This Saturday
an exhibition of photographs on the
2008 Bombay attacks will be seen in
Madrid
for the second consecutive year. Despite the remoteness of the place of the attacks, many people from Madrid will remember that the then president of the Community,
Esperanza Aguirre,
was in
India
traveling with a delegation of businessmen just when the massacre occurred.
"I went out barefoot, stepping on pools of blood," recalled Aguirre, who narrowly escaped the massacre that left
164 dead and more than 300 injured,
among other places in the city, in the hotel where the Madrid delegation was staying.
The Indian community in Madrid will pay tribute this Saturday to the victims, since this week marks the 14th anniversary of the tragedy, which lasted three days (from November 26 to 29) because there were different attacks.
To remember the barbarism of radical Islamism, the photo exhibition that will serve to illustrate the tribute includes
Hafiz Saeed,
the Pakistani leader of the terrorist group
Lashkar-e-Taiba,
author of the attacks.
The organizers of the event explain that the victims of
11-M in Madrid
and
11-S in the United States will also be honored.
In addition, another of the objects of the exhibition is "to show solidarity with the Afghan people, whose country has also suffered from terrorism," they explain.
Just like last year Aguirre herself inaugurated the exhibition, it is expected that this Saturday it will be the businessman
Arturo Fernández,
at that time president of the Madrid employers' association, who will inaugurate the exhibition.
Exhibition paying tribute to the victims of the Bombay attacks
Date:
Saturday, December 3, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Place:
Hotel Mayorazgo, Flor Baja street, 3, semi-corner of Gran Vía.
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