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This article is part of a comparative study of international dimension regarding the media’s cover of the attacks which took place at the Atocha train station of Madrid in March 2004. Focused on Romania and based on a survey conducted on three national newspapers, it analyses the discursive reasoning developed by the press during the days that followed this dramatic event. It shows that the vision developed by the Romanian press is very based on the pattern of fatality and tragedy. It brings to the fore the medias’ strategies focused on emotion. They appear in the three newspapers on a verbal as well as on an iconic level. The article explains at last, that the international scope of the event gives an opportunity to Romanian journalists to analyse very sharply their society and its politics. At the same time, myths and cultural archetypes are mobilized to strength national Romanian values.