The Identification Scandal

SPN Ignacio Spanish VictimThe Spanish general public is far from being happy with the London Metropolitan Police over the very tardy identification of a Spanish citizen.

For four days following the London terrorist attack, despite repeated requests from the Spanish Government, the family of 39-year-old Ignacio Echeverría received no news, whatsoever, as to his whereabouts or fate.

A Spanish friend in London on the day of the attack said that he had seen Ignacio take on a knifeman who had been attacking a woman – Ignacio had gone at him wielding his skateboard. The witness also saw Ignacio go down after receiving a stab wound.

Despite the Spanish Government’s providing photos and fingerprints of the missing man, neither the Met nor the British Foreign Office were capable of providing information to say that Ignacio was amongst the wounded or dead.

What everybody is pointing out here, was that this terrorist attack did not produce mutilated bodies; i.e., from a bomb blast, nor was the number of victims anywhere like that of the Madrid train blasts, for example, when close to 200 were killed, so why was it so hard for the Met and British authorities to identify somebody in hospital or the morgue given that they had more than adequate information to accurately do so?

(News: Spain)

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