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Born in: Rumanía
Age: 44
Offspring: 2
Marital status: Married
Job: Construction manager
Date of the attack: 11/03/2004
Place of the attack: Madrid
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: Islamic terrorism

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Emilian Popescu had been living in Spain for eight years, having emigrated from his native Romania in search of a better future. He was living in Coslada with his wife and their two children, aged 20 and 17. They planned to buy a home and settle down there. Emilian worked as a site manager but he was also a passionate music lover and had encouraged his children to study at the conservatory.

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 ensuing blast killed one of the officers, bringing the total number of people killed by the 11 March bombers to 192.

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