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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]
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 [143] [144] which killed 21 civilians and left 45 seriously wounded, of whom 20 were left disabled; also the attack of Plaza de Callao in Madrid. [145]
Nationwide demonstrations and protests followed the attacks. [5] A view amongst several political commentators is that the PP lost the election as a result of the handling and presentation of the terrorist attacks, rather than specifically due to the Madrid train bombings.
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 ...
The resolution condemns in the strongest terms the bomb attack in Madrid, Spain, perpetrated by the terrorist group ETA. [30] After al-Qaeda involvement became clear, Germany and Russia voiced their concern over Spain's hasty assurances and suggested adding the word "allegedly" to the statement. [ 26 ]
The 1993 Madrid bombings were a coordinated attack of two car bombs by the the armed Basque separatist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) in Madrid, Spain on 21 June 1993, killing 7 people and injuring a further 29. The target was an army vehicle transporting members of the army, killing six military passengers and the civilian driver.
Couric and Gumbel had coverage from New York. NBC had permission from the Globo television network and Eduardo Souto Neto to use the Victory's Theme in a montage with the best moments of Senna at the end of the show. A special edition of Today was held to cover the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy. Couric and Gumbel had coverage from New York.
ETA had begun intensifying attacks in the early 1990s in the run up to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona to try to gain wider publicity for their cause. [2] [3] This attack was the first that they had carried out in 1992 in Madrid and came weeks after the civil guard and Basque police had infiltrated an extortion ring set up to fund ETA.