The Spanish government has apologized to the owners of a Madrid bar where several soldiers panicked customers with an unannounced mock shootout
Reason, March, 2005 by Charles Oliver
The Spanish government has apologized to the owners of a Madrid bar where several soldiers panicked customers with an unannounced mock shootout. A sergeant who was teaching other soldiers how to protect people under threat pulled a fake gun and began "shooting." The bar's owners and the other patrons didn't realize what was happening.
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