Datta, S. (2022)

The 1997 kidnapping and murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco, a 29-year-old councillor in a small Basque town, signalled the beginning of the end of a decades-long terror campaign in Spain. The kidnappers were members of a Basque separatist group called ETA that had, since their inception in 1959, sought to further their political agenda through violence. Bombings and assassinations often targeted high-profile politicians and security officers, such as a 1973 car bomb that killed Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco, but some bombing attacks also targeted civilians.

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