Officer's body burnt in 'Islamic revenge'

The Telegraph ^ | 20/04/2004 | Isambard Wilkinson

[glorgau]

The body of a police special forces officer who died when Islamic terrorists blew themselves up in Madrid was taken from its grave, mutilated and burnt yesterday.

The coffin and body of special agent Francisco Javier Torronteras were pulled from the tomb in Madrid Sur cemetery in Carabanchel and pushed 1,000 yards in a wheelbarrow before being doused with petrol and set alight.

The body was found with a pick driven into its head and a spade dug into its chest.

Although no motive was immediately apparent, police speculated that it could be the work of sympathisers of the Moroccan terrorist group that carried out the train bomb attacks in the Spanish capital on March 11, killing 192 people and injuring 1,900.

The interior ministry said the act of desecration could have been part of "an Islamic rite of revenge".

Agent Torronteras, 41, was killed leading a Special Operations Group team to dislodge terrorists suspected of the Madrid massacre last month.

The seven terrorists blew themselves up in a flat in the Madrid suburb of Leganes a fortnight ago as police moved in to arrest them, injuring 11 other policemen. At least three had been accused of the railway bombings.

Police said the attack on the grave was carried out by at least two people who prised the marble headstone off with a jemmy.

Security was strengthened at the cemetery, where the smell of burning still lingered yesterday afternoon.

Police have provisionally charged 18 people over the railway bombings.

[glorgau]

The religion of peace alert! A few more details concerning the desecration.

[Samwise]

God help us.

[judywillow]

The body of a police special forces officer who died when Islamic terrorists blew themselves up in Madrid was taken from its grave, mutilated and burnt yesterday.

That's sad; what's even sadder is that nobody should anticipate a nation of maricons doing anything about it.

[Young Rhino]

Each of the 18 charged should be burned alive on television...after being coated in pig fat. The Muslim whackos will think twice about grave desecration. These animals only understand brute force.

[lafroste]

Man, we have got to stop p&ssy-footing around with these psychos. At some point one has to give up trying to understand why they are so hate filled, and concentrate on exterminating them. For me, that point came about 2 and a half years ago.

[Humidston]

Man, they really have a thing for dead bodies don't they?

What barbarians!

[Eurotwit]

From the Times:

'Terrorists' desecrate grave of bomb victim


"The desecration of the tomb has shocked the people of Madrid, who are still trying to come to terms with the death of 190 people in terrorist attacks on the city’s commuter trains last month. Police said that the unknown attackers had entered the southern municipal cemetery at night. They drove a pickaxe through the skull of Señor Torronteras’ corpse and pierced his heart with a shovel before dousing the body and coffin in petrol and attempting to burn it.

Police believed that at least two people were involved because the coffin had to be lifted from inside a burial niche, high above the ground. The attackers removed a marble plaque covering the entrance to the niche with a crowbar and then put it back in place once the coffin was removed, presumably in order not to draw attention to the disappearance of the body.

They transported the coffin 600 yards uphill, then opened it, attacked the body with the shovel and pickaxe and set it alight. Given the corpse’s proximity to a boundary wall, investigators believe that the attackers may have intended to take it away, but had abandoned the plan.

Cemetery guards were alerted by the smoke and called the police, who discovered that the mutilated remains were in fact those of their deceased colleague.
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[okie01]

Animals. Like rabid dogs.

And deservant of a comparable end...

[I still care]

I don't understand why the Islamists are so filled with anger still. Didn't they get what they wanted? The Spanish turned tail and are running out of Iraq, and a US and Bush supporting government is gone.

They should be having lots of peaceful moments over in Spain right now. I mean, everybody loves a socialist.

[luvbach1]

These fiends must be destroyed. When will the world awake? The "religion of peace" is on the march!

[luvbach1]

Remember the Fallujan desecration of bodies? Of course you do. Could this be a pattern of behavior? Of course it is.

[Yalta]

This'll be all over the network news. </sarcasm>

[dagnabbit]

Agreed. Put them down like the rabid beasts they are.

[spyone]

"police speculated that it could be the work of sympathisers of the Moroccan terrorist group that carried out the train bomb attacks in the Spanish capital on March 11, killing 192 people and injuring 1,900"

Hello! Spaniards! The Terrorists haven't all been caught yet! They are living in the same suburb, you incompetent fools! The Moors are looking to exterminate you, you dumb Andulusians!

[mikegi]

Man, we have got to stop p&ssy-footing around with these psychos. At some point one has to give up trying to understand why they are so hate filled, and concentrate on exterminating them. For me, that point came about 2 and a half years ago.

Things will have to get much worse here before the right people grit their teeth and do what must be done.

[Yalta]

By the time the WOT ends, there will be millions dead. The question is: on which side?

[SpyGuy]

I bet the Spaniards are really proud of themselves now for having elected their new appeasement socialist government.

[MEG33]

My,my..and we were told how very,very unIslamic mutilating a body is.What are we to believe?/sarcasm.

It is telling how brave they are attacking the innocent train riders and now a dead body.Real heroic/...sarcasm continues

[CurlyDave]

The fruits of appeasement have started to ripen early.

Now just sit back & wait for the next bomb & set of demands.

I have great sympathy for the minority of Spaniards who understood the real dangers. I only hope the majority will be educated quickly.

As Ben Franklin said: "Experience is a dear teacher, but many will learn at no other."