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March 23, 1982: An ETA gun attack kills 2 police inspectors and a civilian in Sestao. [53] September 14, 1982: ETA's deadliest attack of the year occurs in Rentería, where they ambush and kill four police officers. May 28, 1983: 2 Civil Guards were killed by gunmen in Pamplona while guarding a post office. [54]
The September 1982 Rentería attack was an ambush by the Basque separatist organisation ETA which occurred on 14 September 1982 on the motorway near the Basque town of Errenteria (Spanish: Rentería) in Guipuzkoa. The targets were several national police officers, four of whom were killed in the attack, with the fifth seriously injured.
During the two years before the attack, ETA detonated six car bombs in Barcelona that killed three people. [4]Up to this point, Spain's deadliest terrorist attack had been the El Descanso bombing in Madrid in 1985 by suspected Islamic militants which had killed 18 Spaniards and injured 82 others, including 11 American servicemen, who were believed to have been the target of the attack.
The attack led to the 1982 Lebanon war. Abu Nidal Organization: 1982 Lebanon war: 7 June Assassination: 1 Lisbon, Portugal: Assassination of Erkut Akbay, the Turkish administrative attaché. He was assassinated near his home as he returned for lunch. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide: 14 June Shooting 8 0 San Vicente del Caguán, Colombia
The movement was built around the separatist organization ETA, [6] [7] which had launched a campaign of attacks against Spanish administrations since 1959. ETA had been proscribed as a terrorist organization by the Spanish, British, [8] French [9] and American [10] authorities at different moments. The conflict took place mostly on Spanish soil ...
Spain's High Court has sentenced a former member of the defunct Basque separatist group ETA to 85 years in prison for her involvement in a car bomb attack in Madrid that left 11 people injured 24 ...
A number of ETA attacks by car bomb caused random civilian casualties, like ETA's bloodiest attack, the bombing in 1987 of the subterranean parking lot of the Hipercor supermarket in Barcelona [142] [143] which killed 21 civilians and left 45 seriously wounded, of whom 20 were left disabled; also the attack of Plaza de Callao in Madrid. [144]
The Batallón Vasco Español (BVE) (English: Spanish Basque Battalion), sometimes associated with the Alianza Anticomunista (AAA) (English: Anti-Communist Alliance), Antiterrorismo ETA (English: ETA Antiterrorism) or Triple A (English: Triple A), was a Spanish neo-fascist parapolice organization present mainly in the Basque Country and Southern France.