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KILLINGS IN DISPUTED CIRCUMSTANCES
(1978-1997)

ALBERTO GARCIA MARMOL AND JESUS MARI ARRAZOLA

Gunned-down and killed by the Civil Guard on May 11, 1978.
Autopsy showed one of the dead had been shot on his back. Witnesses
claimed the two youngsters were unarmed


RICARDO GOMEZ

Shot and killed by the police in Bilbo on November 18, 1978.
Witnesses claim he was shot on the floor after stumbling and
falling when attempting to escape from the police.


FRAN ALDANONDO

Shot and killed by the Civil Guard on October 17, 1979, when trying to escape from the police
in Izaskun, Tolosa. He was reportedly unarmed. Official reports
claim Aldanondo fired some shots at the police and threw a grenade but
no evidence of explosion was found.


JOSE MANUEL ARIXTIMUÑO

Gunned-down and killed in a police ambush in Gasteiz on March 1981.


ANDRES IZAGIRRE AND JOSETXO JAUREGI

Shot and killed by the Civil Guard Anti-Terrorist Rural Groups (GAR)
on October 21, 1984 in the Bilbo-Behobia highway, near the neighborhood of Altza in Donostia.
The Civil Guard gave four different versions of the "armed encounter".


FERNANDO BARRIO

Shot and killed by the Anti-Terrorist Brigade inside a home in Donostia (Gizpuzkoa)
on September 27, 1982. There are no witnesses but neighbors claimed to have heard some
gun shots and someone shouting "tranquilo muchacho, tranquilo" (easy, boy, easy) and then another two gun shots.


IÑAKI OJEDA

Gunned-down and killed by the police inside a home in Barakaldo (Bizkaia)
on February 16, 1984. Autopsy revealed 19 gun shots in his body,
seven of which were located in his heart.


PEDRO MARI ISART, RAFAEL DELAS, DIONISIO AIZPURUA, AND JOSE MARI IZURA

Machine-gunned and killed by the police in Pasaia (Gipuzkoa) on March 22, 1984
when trying to enter the port of Pasaia from Iparralde by boat.


JUAN LUIS LEKUONA AND AGUSTIN ARREGI

Burnt to death in a fire inside a home in Hernani on June 15, 1984.
Fire was caused by grenades thrown by policemen in a Civil Guard operation.


PABLO GUDE

Killed by the police in "armed encounter" (official version) in Lasarte on August 17, 1984.
Relatives who saw the body claimed that Gude had been shot in the mouth.


ALEJANDRO AUZMENDI, BAKARTXO ARZELUS, AND LUIS MARI ZABALETA

Official version alleged the three youths died in "armed encounter" with
GAL death squads on January 15, 986. The bodies were found in the
Bilbo-Behovia highway. Two of bodies had gun shots in the head
apparently fired at close range. A third body was found hidden behind a fence.


ANGEL MARI GALARRAGA

Shot and killed by the police in Donostia (Gipuzkoa) on March 14, 986.


LUZIA URIGOITIA

Shot and killed by the Civil Guard inside a home in Pasaia (Gipuzkoa) on
July 23, 1987. Autopsy revealed only one gun shot in her body located in the nape.


MIKEL KASTRESANA

Shot and killed by the police in Donostia (Gipuzkoa) on September 23, 1988.
The official version claimed an exchange of fire but witnesses
alleged Kastresana was finished off on the floor by the police when he was
wounded and already reduced. Autopsy revealed that the gun shots
which caused his death had been fired at close range.


MANU URIONABARRENETXEA AND JUAN OIARBIDE

Died in a Civil Guard ambush near Irun on September 16, 1989. The official
version claimed Urionabarrenetxea and Oiarbide had fired the first shots and
the civil guards had no other choice but to repel the aggression.


SUSANA ARREGI AND JON LIZARRALDE

Their bodies were found between the 25 and 26 of June, 1990. The official version claimed that an exchange of gunfire occurred in the Foz de Lumbier in Navarre between members of ETA and the security forces. One civil guard was killed and another wounded. Two members of ETA were later found dead (Arregi and Lizarralde) and a third (German Rubenach) was seriously wounded. The Spanish ministry of interior stated the next day that ETA members had apparently committed suicide to avoid taken alive and that the third member of the group had tried to kill himself, but failed. Doubt was thrown on this explanation by reports that one of the dead, Arregi, had been shot twice on the side of her head and the other had substantial quantities of water in his body.


MIKEL CASTILLO

A shot on his back fired by the police caused his death on September 18, 1990,
when he attempted to escape from the police in Iruñea (Navarre).
The first official report claimed he had died in an "armed encounter" but
he was reportedly unarmed. Lawyers acting for the family claimed that
the security forces had killed him illegally.


JOAN CARLES MONTEAGUT AND JON EREZUMA

Gunned-down inside a home by the Civil Guard in Lliça d'Amunt (Catalunya) on
May 20, 1996. Autopsy revealed that Erezuma bled to death and the seven gun shots
on Moneagut's body were fired from a short distance.


JOKIN LEUNDA AND IÑAKI ORMAETXEA, AND PATXI IRIZAR

Shot and killed inside a home during a Civil Guard operation in Donostia (Gipuzkoa)
on August 17, 1991. Autopsy revealed that Irizar had only one
shot in his body located in the temple. The bodies of Leunda and
Ormaetxea presented numerous gun shots, and in each case, the gun shots
that caused their death had been fired from very short distance.


JUAN MARI ORMAZABAL

Killed in a ambush by the regional police of Bascongadas in Bilbo on
August 29, 1991. Autopsy revealed three gun shots, one in the leg, another in
the hip, and the third one in the head, all fired from a distace of 25
centimeters and when the victim was lying on the floor.


ANJEL IRAZABALBEITIA

Killed by the regional police of Bascongadas in Loiu on November 18, 1994.


JOSU ZABALA SALEGI

Basque activist Josu Zabala Salegi, 26, found dead; allegedly killed by security forces.


JOSE MIGUEL BUSTINZA AND GAIZKA GAZTELUMENDI

Civil Guard killed Jose Miguel Bustinza, 38, and Gaizka Gaztelumendi, 27, presumably unarmed, in a police ambush in the Basque city of Bilbo in September 1997. A witness said civilguardsmen "were waiting a long time in the truck parked in front of the Anaiak Restaurant, right in front where they were killed." Another witness said that "several policemen in civilian clothes and wearing bullet proof vests came out of a gray Mercedes truck with Donostia plates and immediately began to fire at the them [the two Basque activists]." A woman who witnessed the killing said that one of the victims screamed "Don't please," but that the police "went after him."


INAXI ZEBERIO

Shot dead on June 5, 1998 by the special anti-terrorism unit of the regional police of Bascongadas. Inaxi's body showed 24 bullet holes. She was handcuffed after being shot.