In questo giorno 20 anni fa, l’attacco terroristico 7/7 ha ucciso 56 e ferito oltre 700 persone a Londra

This was the deadliest attack in the UK since Lockerbie and happened just the day after London won the bid for the 2012 Olympics. It was also a little over a year after Madrid .

I was 12 at the time and I remember being terrified of taking public transportation after these attacks.

I also shared this over on r/TwentyYearsAgo, for those of you interested in the era.

If safe means become Islamic country they are close to..don’t know if means safer but..is their choice

This was still pre-smartphone so I remember not really finding out until a few hours later, when one of my teachers had the BBC news rolling coverage of the aftermath on his classroom tv and we just spent the double lesson watching it. I lived in a commuter town about 1 hour away from London and so knew plenty of people whose parents traveled on the tube daily, so the worry was pretty close to home.
I also remember the insanity afterwards, the failed bombing attempt a week later and the killing of Jean Charles de Menezez by the Met police, mistaking him for a bomber.

How have I not heard about this