
Judge Javier Gomez Bermudez points as he takes his seat inside
an annex of the High Court before reading out the verdicts of the 2004 Madrid
train bombings trial in Madrid, October 31, 2007. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
MADRID, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- A Spanish court Wednesday found 21 people
guilty of involvement in the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people and
wounded more than 1,800 on March 11, 2004.
The chief judge of the anti-terrorism court Javier Gomez Bermudez delivered
the verdicts, sentencing Moroccan Jamal Zougam and Spaniard Emilio Suarez
Trashorras to some 40,000 years in prison respectively.
The court, however, acquitted seven of the 28 accused, including Rabei
Osman el-Sayed, who had allegedly masterminded the attack.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero welcomed the verdicts. "Today
justice was done," he said.
The barbaric attacks have "left a deep imprint of pain on our collective
memory, which stays with us as a homage to the victims," he said.

The victims of Madrid's train bombing are seen following a bomb
blast at Madrid's Atocha station in this file photo taken March 11, 2004.
(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)