Bliss Case
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Throughout history, terrorism has been intended to achieve different goals. In Spain, the organized group known as ETA, is the oldest of the group using terrorism now, on the other hand the attacks of March 11, 2004 have been the biggest in the countrys history.
Terrorism is one of the most debated topics in the world, especially at this time. ETA is a terrorist organization that was founded in 1959 following the Marxist-Leninist ideology and has evolved from defending Basque culture to demand the independence of the Basque country. ETA is an armed group and illegal and poses a great threat to the Basque and Spanish citizens.
Terrorism is exercised by the State and also from groups seeking to achieve different objectives. In the absence of agreement between the state and the group that intends to meet its objectives unfortunately used forms of violence that threaten citizens and civil society.
In Spain the situation is lived long ago and could not be true dialogue and effective unlock this conflict with the armed group ETA.
Terrorism directly affects the development of a country and causing insecurity and this insecurity diminishes the quality of life of citizens.
Terrorism is exercised by the State and also from groups seeking to achieve different objectives. In the absence of agreement between the state and the group that intends to meet its objectives unfortunately used forms of violence that threaten citizens and civil society.
In Spain the situation is lived long ago and could not be true dialogue and effective unlock this conflict with the armed group ETA.
Terrorism directly affects the development of a country and causing insecurity and this insecurity diminishes the quality of life of citizens.
The terrorist organization ETA has been weakened by the arrest in recent years of several hundred people linked to the band. Still maintains full capacity to act. The final blow to the dome police ETA occurs May 20, 2008, when Francisco Javier López Peña, alias Thierry, number one of the military and political apparatus of the terrorist organization, was arrested in southwest France Ainhoa Ozaeta Mendiondo with Igor and Jon Salaberria Suberbiola.
Despite the successive arrests, investigators estimate that ETA account in France with fifty activists “liberated”, which may be brought promptly to carry out attacks in Spain, to which must be added four to six commands established in Spain, where majority in the Basque Country.
However, the traditional structure of the organization has changed and you can no longer talk about the so-called complex Donosti acting in Guipúzcoa or commands Vizcaya or Madrid, but a diffuse organization, which has found that members of a group traveling on the peninsula are introduced promptly to reinforce activists operating in our country.
ETA attacks
The chronology of the most recent is:
YEAR 2005
– January 8: three low power pumps caused minor damage to a car dealership in the district of Deusto Bilbao, a crane company Ordizia (Guipúzcoa) and a truck transport company DHL, in Donostia Añorga.
Another similar device was placed in a dealership Barakaldo (Vizcaya), although it was found four days later and caused no damage.
– January 18: A car bomb explodes loaded with 40 kilos of explosives in Getxo (Vizcaya), fifteen minutes after placement and warn without him time to cordon off the area. It caused minor injuries to a ertzaina.
– January 30: the explosion of a bomb in the Hotel Port Denia in Denia (Alicante), caused two minor injuries and extensive material damage. A phone call on behalf of ETA warned the DYA Bilbao artifact placement half hour before it exploded, allowing evict the 200 people who were on site.
– February 9: a car bomb loaded with between 20 and 30 kilos of chloratite erupted at Camp Nations Madrid after ETA warning on behalf of the newspaper Gara, caused 43 minor injuries and damage to buildings and nearby vehicles.
– February 27: an underpowered device exploded in the grounds of the retreat for employees of BBVA in the Alicante town of Villajoyosa, after a warning phone call to the newspaper Gara on behalf of ETA placement.
– May 15: four bombs exploded in Guipúzcoa in companies Eun Beasain, Felix Gabilondo of Bergara, Bernardo Ecenarro of Elgoibar and Goi of Soraluze.
– May 22: ETA placed two bombs in Zarauz (Guipúzcoa) composed of one or two kilos of chloratite in the company “Otzarreta Charts” and in the park Muntxio. The first exploded and caused damage and the second was deactivated by the Ertzaintza.
– May 25: in Madrid, another car bomb exploded placed by ETA in Rufino Gonzalez Street, loaded with between 18 and 20 kilos of chloratite, causing minor injuries to three people and anxiety attack another fifty, and of material damage.
– June 10, the terrorist group had attacked the airport of Zaragoza with the launch of two grenades that landed in the vicinity and did not cause injury, but forced the closure of facilities.
– June 25, a car bomb exploded in the parking Peineta Stadium in the Madrid district of San Blas, in which there were no victims.
– July 12, four bombs exploded near the combined cycle power plant in Amorebieta (Vizcaya) that no casualties.
– July 22. An ETA bomb exploded in the offices of the company Construcciones Intxausti, Gernika causing a small fire and little damage. The device also hit a building of homes, but no one was injured.
– July 23 broke a pot with three kilos of explosives placed in the ATM in the main office of the Caixa Galicia in Santiago de Compostela, causing material damage but no injuries.
– July 29 low-power two devices exploded on the roadside of National IV and V, as it passes through the provinces of Toledo and Ciudad Real, after an anonymous caller, alertase the Basque newspaper Gara from the placement of