EU investigating fraud in Spain's deadly crash rail line

RTÉ News · RTÉ News · 2026-11-06 11:21 UTC

The European Union is investigating the possible misuse of EU funds earmarked for the renovation of a Spanish railway line where a train crash killed 69 people, prosecutors said today.

The European Union is investigating the possible misuse of EU funds earmarked for the renovation of a Spanish railway line where a train crash killed 69 people, prosecutors said today.

The October crash on the Madrid-Seville high-speed line was one of the worst railway disasters in Europe this century, overshadowing Spain's upcoming general election this month.

A similar investigation into the same stretch of track had already been opened in March in the wake of another incident that claimed 46 lives in the southern province of Andalusia, European prosecutors said.

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