Associations of victims of 11-M ask the Government to clarify if there are ongoing investigations before the statute of limitations for the attacks in 2024

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The president of the

,

, pointed out this Saturday, on the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attack that left 193 fatalities in Madrid, that there is only one year left for the facts to prescribe, so They are promoting meetings with different parliamentary groups to get the Government to clarify if there is any open proceeding today.

In an interview with Europa Press, the president of this association, which brings together more than 600 victims of various jihadist attacks, explained that they lack "concrete and serious" information on whether there is material that could be capable of promoting the cause to find out the intellectual and financial authors of the attacks.

They are aware that there is classified information, but they regret that when the time comes for the declassification of those secrets, it may be too late because the 20-year prescription period at the time of the explosions has expired.

In this sense, Majali recalled that the judgment of the National Court, of 2007, and that of the Supreme Court did not point to the intellectual or financial authors, and points out that now "as of March 11, 2024, if prescribed, At the moment in which there is evidence or question that can point to those authors, they will no longer be able to be judged".

That day in March 2004, early in the morning, ten of the thirteen bombs planted by jihadist terrorists exploded in four Madrid Cercanías trains at the

stations , and next to

, leaving a total of 192 fatalities.

Another victim, who was in a coma, died years later.

This association considers that at any time some information or indication may be known that finally resolves the unknowns that revolve around this tragedy, and its president warns that in terrorist jihadism the networks operate at an international level, which is why in other trials such as that of the

or that of the

"it is not ruled out that information emerges that connects with the authors of 11-M."

She adds that if this finding "appears after 11M 2024, -the authors- will go unpunished."

Despite the fact that the clock is running against her in the prescription of the crime of terrorism -if it had happened today, with the reform of the

of 2010 they would no longer prescribe-, the president indicates that there is a second way other than the opening of proceedings before 2024, and it is the "

".

Thus, he explained that the association has appeared in the case that is being followed in the National Court in which the former head of ETA

, alias

, and other ETA leaders are being investigated as intellectual authors of the murder of the Ermua councillor.

The Criminal Chamber of the National Court ruled for the first time on this doctrine promoted by the lawyer of the Dignity and Justice association in an order in which he supported the decision of Judge Manuel García Castellón to keep that ETA member charged, considering that It was not yet the opportune procedural moment to clarify whether the crimes had prescribed for him, stressing that such a decision would correspond to the court that in due course judges the case.

imprescriptibility

For Marjali, this doctrine promoted by lawyer

, who is also a lawyer for this association, "opens the door" to declaring the imprescriptibility of the 11-M attack.

According to the lawyer's thesis, all terrorist murders that had not prescribed when Spain declared that crime imprescriptible -2010- can never expire.

The internationalist expert relies on the 1974

(CEI), but in force since 2003, which declares the non-prescription of war crimes, crimes against humanity and "other conduct of a comparable nature" to which the State want to give such a category.

In its article 2.2, it establishes that when the Member State in question (Spain) incorporates the agreement into its internal legal system, it must apply it to all crimes that have such consideration, including those that have been committed before, provided that their limitation period is still open. .

In any case, Majali has pointed out that the intention of this association is not to criticize the work of the court that judged the attacks, but that they only want to know "who did it, how it was paid and why it was done."

"Anyone who has suffered a violent act in their family and environment (...) will seek to know who did it and why," he added, adding that "it is not acceptable that those who devised and paid to kill 193 people have not been identified."

In line, he has cited the investigation on 11-M carried out by the researcher

, who in his latest book pointed to a supposed mastermind.

"Why does an investigator point to a person and our judges were not capable (...)? There are issues pending to be resolved from the moment they do not tell us who devised and paid for the attack," he added.

The Association of Victims of 11-M has also made through a press release an appeal to collect funds through donations through its website 'www.ayuda11m.org' with which to cover the cost of lawyers to maintain their appearance in causes such as that of Miguel Ángel Blanco.

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