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  • Madrid Policeman's Body Burned (Surely TROP™ wouldn't do something so depraved… would they?)

    04/19/2004 10:03:21 AM PDT · by quidnunc · 44 replies · 216+ views
    CNN ^ | April 19, 2004 | Al Goodman
    Madrid, Spain – The body of a Spanish police officer who was killed in a raid on suspected Islamic terrorists was removed from its tomb Sunday night, dragged across a cemetery, doused with gasoline and burned, a Spanish police official told CNN. Police do not know who committed the crime, and an investigation is under way. Francisco Javier Torronteras, a special operations police officer, died April 3 during a police raid in a Madrid suburb where police believed suspects behind the March 11 Madrid train bombings were hiding. The suspected terrorists set off a bomb during the raid and seven...