Spain, ETA bomb at Madrid airport

MADRID – A Renault filled with explosives was set off by the Spanish police on the second floor of the parking lot of the terminal 2 of the Madrid Barajas airport. An explosion that the bombers, namely the ETA, the armed wing of the Basque independent movement, wanted to be without victims since an hour before the outbreak they alerted the police. And, indeed, so it was: the intervention of the bomb squad caused damage to the cars parked near the Renault, a fire extinguished by the fire brigade but no harm to people.

The attack was announced by a telephone call at 7 am to the traffic police of San Sebastian, in the Basque Country. A man warned that a Renault 19, loaded with explosives, was parked in the parking lot of the Madrid airport’s domestic flights and that it would explode an hour later.

A clear warning. The security forces of Madrid airport have isolated the parking area of ​​terminal 2 and the bomb squad have immediately found the Renault. In a few minutes the car was exploded and the danger thwarted.

No coincidence that at the Madrid airport no flight was canceled and the only difficulties were due to the number of cars left bottled up in police bans while trying to reach the airport.

August 27 2001