Madrid.- Daniel Perez, a young 37, rammed his car loaded with two gas bottles and 15 kilos of explosives yesterday morning at the headquarters of the ruling Popular Party (conservative PP) in Madrid, with the intention of violating all political parties that, in his opinion, “all are equal”.
The attack caused panic among locals as many of them thought it was a terrorist attack in some Islamic organization against the Popular Party. The device was not ready to explode, so no incidents occurred, but the area had to be cordoned off, the service the metro and the bus was interrupted for several hours, and the residents of the homes in the area were forbidden to leave their homes for a few hours.
Nothing arrest the young man, born in the village of Bronchales (Teruel) said he was a businessman and he was desperate because the fault of the politicians had lost everything. However, according to the local mayor, Fran cisco Nacher, Perez never had money problems, lived with his parents. He also said that he had worked in periods interrupted in a chipboard factory in Teruel, but was now unemployed. And with mental problems. In fact came to be admitted to a psychiatric facility, although for several years the situation was stable. In 1999 he was arrested for stealing a car from a neighbor. The mayor also said that the people were shocked with what happened.
According to a neighbor, the day before had spent the afternoon at the bar talking football with some villagers. However, that day had been sharing the gas bottles in his village, barely 400 inhabitants, so surely bought two, the loaded in the car and traveled to Madrid where minutes before 7 in the morning yesterday tried to blow. In his vehicle, a Citroen Xantia, besides wearing of the two cylinders, several kilos of ammonium nitrate, a timer and a starter home character. But the material was not prepar ed to exploit.
The building that houses the headquarters of the PP is located in downtown Genoa 13th Street, just opposite the National Court and few meters from the Plaza de Colón, in a central neighborhood of Chamberí full of shops and offices. So nothing clash occur throughout the area was cleared, the mouths of Columbus and Alonso Martínez Metro were blocked to prevent out people and workers of PP not go to their jobs until after requested few hours.
A woman Attorney General
Meanwhile, a woman will for the first time in Spain in front of the general prosecutor’s office: fiscal Consuelo Madrigal was chosen by the government of Mariano Rajoy to replace Eduardo Torres-Dulce after his controversial resignation. Madrigal, 58 recognized lawyer with extensive experience and is currently the head of the Office of the Coord inating Council for Children. With information from DPA
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