José Manuel Juan Boix

ETAETA

Gallery

Description

Born in: Aragón
Age: 18
Offspring: 0
Marital status: Single
Job: Professional athlete and student
Date of the attack: 29/07/1979
Place of the attack: Madrid
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: ETA

Description

On the morning of 29 July 1979, the political-military faction of the terrorist organisation ETA sowed panic among the population of Madrid with a series of attacks at Barajas Airport and Chamartín and Atocha rail stations, killing seven people and wounding nearly a hundred others.

At around 1.10 pm, barely ten minutes after the first bomb exploded at Barajas Airport, a second bomb went off at Chamartín rail station. A device hidden in a suitcase containing six kilograms of ammonite exploded in one of the luggage lockers next to the passenger waiting room. Two students were killed in the explosion: Dorothy Fertig (20) a Danish citizen, and José Manuel Juan Boix.

José Manuel Juan Boix, aged 18 and originally from Zaragoza, was a promising athlete. He was seriously injured in the explosion and died on 18 August.

Images