Spain: ETA Threat to Beach Resorts

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | July 30th, 2009 | Trackback

Police in Spanish beach resorts were put on alert for a bomb threat from ETA, the Basque separatist group, just days before a car bomb blew off the façade of a 14-story barracks housing civil guard police and their families in Burgos, killing no one but injuring more than 60. The bombing occurred without warning at 4 a.m. The police alert for beach resorts followed the arrest of three Basque terror suspects near Pau in southern France. Police learned that three vans may have been loaded with explosives in France and driven to Spain for possible detonation in beach towns. ETA has long used southern France as a base for attacks in Spain, but French and Spanish police collaboration in recent years has disrupted their operations. The group has detonated small bombs in beach resorts in past summers in an effort to damage the Spanish tourism economy and as a way to show that it still can mount attacks when it chooses.

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