(AFP) Twenty years ago, a large, well-organised terror cell planned and staged the deadly Madrid train bombings, but today the jihadist threat facing Spain comes from lone wolves and small self-radicalised groups.
On March 11, 2004, 10 bombs were placed on four suburban trains heading for the capital’s Atocha station.
They exploded within minutes of each other, killing 192 people and injuring nearly 2,000 in Europe’s worst jihadist attack.
The attacks were carried out by a large cell made up mainly of first-generation Moroccan immigrants.
Three weeks later, seven suspected members of the cell blew themselves up when police surrounded the place where they were hiding on the outskirts of Madrid.
