Alexandru Horatiu Suciu

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Alexandru Horatiu Suciu had been living in Spain for just six months. He left his home town in northern Romania after completing vocational education and found a job in Spain as a locksmith. He dreamed of returning to Romania to set up a mechanic’s shop, since he had been passionate about cars from an early age. On the morning of 11 March, he was travelling with a workmate. Both men were killed at Atocha station.

11 March 2004 fell on a Thursday. Early that morning, a number of terrorists with links to Al-Qaeda planted thirteen bombs on four suburban trains covering routes running through Madrid. Ten of the bombs exploded between 7.37 and 7.39 am, when the trains were at Atocha, El Pozo and Santa Eugenia stations and alongside Calle Téllez. 191 people were killed in the attack and around 1,500 were wounded. It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Spanish history. On 3 April 2004, agents from the Special Operations Group (GEO) were about to enter an apartment in Leganés where the perpetrators of the attacks were believed to be hiding when the terrorists detonated twenty kilograms of explosives in an act of collective suicide. The blast killed one of the officers, bringing the total number of people killed by the 11 March killers to 192.

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