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April 16, 1980: 2 Civil Guards are killed after the border post they were manning was attacked with gunfire. [46] May 15, 1980: 3 Policía Nacional officers are shot dead by an ETA gunman at a cafe in San Sebastián. [47] July 13, 1980: In an ambush in Orio, ETA attempts a repeat of the attack in Ispaster earlier in the year and kills 2 Civil ...
The 1980 Ispaster attack was a gun and grenade attack by the Basque separatist organisation ETA which occurred on 1 February 1980 near the Basque town of Ispaster. The targets were a convoy of civil guards who were escorting workers and weapons from the nearby Esperanza y Cia Arms factory to Bilbao. A total of six civil guards were killed ...
Four other ETA members: Cristina Arrizabalaga, María Teresa Rojo, Esteban Esteban Nieto, Inés del Río Prada and Inmaculada Noble were arrested in the same operation. [6] In 1989, Troitiño was convicted of 22 murders and sentenced to 2,232 years in prison. [7] However he was released from prison on 13 April 2011. [6]
The 1980 Zarautz attack was a mass shooting gun attack by the Basque separatist organisation ETA which occurred on 3 November 1980 in the Basque town of Zarautz in Gipuzkoa. The targets were several off duty civil guards belonging to the traffic department, who were drinking in a bar in the town.
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 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 ...
ETA emblem. ETA, [b] an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna [c] ("Basque Homeland and Liberty" [11] or "Basque Country and Freedom" [12]), was an armed Basque nationalist and far-left [13] separatist organization in the Basque Country between 1959 and 2018, with its goal being independence for the region.
GAL operated primarily in the Basque country on the French side of the Spanish-French border, but kidnappings and torture also took place in Spain.Most victims (at least 27 dead and 26 injured) were ETA members or activist Basque nationalists, but some were not known to have links to ETA or any other organization advocating political violence.