A candle is left outside a Madrid cell phone shop run by Jamal Zougam, a Moroccan suspect in last week's commuter train bombings. A handwritten sign reads: "No more deaths. Life is difficult enough. Peace always."
Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.
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