Former Spanish Minister Fátima Báñez is one of the victims killed in the Toledo accident
The current president of the CEOE Foundation was travelling on one of the crashed high-speed trains to participate in an event between entrepreneurs in Seville.
Fatima Báñez in September. Photo: Europa Press
Fátima Báñez, president of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) Foundation, is one ofthe victims of the train accident in Toledo.
The former Minister of Employment and Social Security of Mariano Rajoy's government was on one of the trains and had disappeared since the accident.
The PP politician was travelling from Madrid to Seville to participate in a business event.
Bañez, born in Huelva in 1967 and president of the CEOE Foundation since July 2020, took office almost two years after leaving the government and was currently also an independent adviser to Rovi and external adviser to Iberdrola International Energy.
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