Tens of thousands of people, including victims of ETA bomb attacks, marched through central Madrid in the rain today to press the Socialist government not to negotiate a peace deal with the armed Basque separatist group.

Israeli lawyer Arthur Roth lost his 15-year-old daughter Malki in a Jerusalem suicide blast. Kenneth Thompson’s mother died in the Oklahoma City bombing. Spanish journalist Irene Villa lost both legs in an Eta bombing 15 years ago.