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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.
The search and rescue teams on the field were unable to find him or his body. [12] Gemayel's body was finally identified five and a half hours after the explosion by a Mossad agent in a church near the site, where the dead were being collected. It was concluded that he had been one of the first people moved to the church after the explosion. [12]
The attack occurred nearly six months after the Hipercor bombing in Barcelona had killed 21 people and injured 45. Following the Barcelona bombing, ETA's call for talks with the government of Felipe González was rejected and, on 5 November 1987, the Pact of Madrid resulted in an agreement between the main Spanish political parties to release a joint statement rejecting the legitimacy of ETA ...
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
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 ...
ETA grew out of a student group called Ekin, founded in the early 1950s, which published a magazine and undertook direct action. [62] ETA was founded on 31 July 1959 as Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ("Basque Homeland and Liberty" [11] or "Basque Country and Freedom" [12]) by students frustrated by the moderate stance of the Basque Nationalist Party. [63]
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