Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:22:28 +0000
From: Iain McKay <iain.mckay-AT-zetnet.co.uk>
Subject: [Fwd: Translation from CNT website on murder of member]



hello all

> Hi, this is a translation of the CNT's website's news on the murder of their
> member:
> 
> A MEMBER OF THE CONSTRUCTION FEDERATION ASSASSINATED IN MADRID
> >From the CNT Local Federation of Madrid
> 
> In the mid-afternoon of today, Sunday, in the Atocha railway station, while
> some comrades from the builders union were handing out flyers as part of the
> campaign against the Labour Reform, one of them was attacked, without having
> given any sort of provocation at all, by an individual who was given a
> flyer.
> 
> The aggresor, apparently a tramp, after exclaiming, "this is a piece of
> shit," and witnessed by the customers and waiters of the cafeteria where the
> events took place, hit him and knocked him to the ground, fleeing
> immediately. A friend of the aggresor was retained by a union member and has
> been identified. The search and capture of the assassin has begun.
> 
> The victim, who did not have a chance to defend himself, entered the Madrid
> Doce de Octubre Hospital in a state of clinical death. He died at 22.30
> (Spanish time, Sunday).
> 
> The CNT website is www.cnt.es . From there you can send messages of support.
> 
> in solidarity