Summary: March 11, 2004: Declaration by President Prodi on the bomb attacks in Madrid (Brussels)
I must express my deep outrage and shock at this savage, bloodthirsty and totally senseless slaughter of innocent lives.
At this hour the pain and suffering of the victims, their families and loved ones are foremost in my thoughts, and my sympathy and compassion go out to them and their relatives, to all the people of Spain, who have been so cruelly and viciously targeted today, to the Spanish Government and to the King of Spain, whose dismay and grief I share.
There is absolutely no excuse for the perpetrators of this appalling act of blind hate to hide behind. It is not a political act, it is not an act of revolt or rebellion. It is a vicious attack against unarmed, defenceless people, an aberrant and revolting act that only the perverted minds of terrorists could have hatched.
It is violence for its own sake, gratuitous and pointless violence that leads nowhere, and the whole international community is -- and will continue to be -- mobilised against this inhuman, intolerable phenomenon until it is completely eradicated.
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