The delegate of the Government in the Community of Madrid, Mercedes González, attended today the meeting in which the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has proposed to the Community of Madrid and the City of the capital that they join the management of the headquarters of the Memorial Center of the Victims of Terrorism that is to be launched in the capital.
The meeting was attended by the Councilor for the Presidency, Justice and Interior, Enrique López, from the Community of Madrid; and by the City of Madrid, the Mayor, José Luis Martinez-Almeida, who have also been invited to join the board of the Foundation Center for the Memory of the Victims of Terrorism (FCMVT).
With the incorporation of the Madrid institutions, the administrations involved want to join forces and strengthen coordination for the implementation of the Madrid headquarters of the Memorial Center, which will be located in the Duque de Medinaceli Building, in the central neighborhood of Las Cortes, where it will have 4,000 square meters to install a permanent exhibition that will include a space for reflection, memory and offering; rooms for the different temporary exhibitions that are scheduled; administrative units that manage the future activity of the headquarters; a library, and an area dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of matters of interest for those affected by terrorist violence.
The creation of the Madrid headquarters is a demand of the associations of victims of terrorism and a commitment made by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, who promised to provide the Memorial Center with a second headquarters in Madrid (the first is in Vitoria-Gasteiz) at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the FCMVT held in December 2021.