ETA's most recent deadly attacks

French National Police Brigade leader, Jean Serge Nerin, remains ETA's latest fatal victim to date. Nerin's death is the only assassination committed by the armed group in 2010. The gendarme died on March 16th after an exchange of shots between police and ten members of the organisation who have carried out an armed robbery on a car dealership near Paris.

In 2009, three people were killed by ETA: Spanish National Police Inspector Eduardo Puelles García, who died on June 19th the victim of a car-bomb in Arrigorriaga, near Bilbao; and Civil Guards Carlos Sáez de Tejada and Diego Salvá Lezaun, who also died when a bomb attached to the underside of their police vehicle went off in Calvíá, on the island of Mallorca.

In 2008, ETA killed four people: the Socialist Councilor for Arrasate-Mondragón, Isaías Carrasco; Civil Guard officer Juan Manuel Piñuela, who died in a bomb attack on a barracks in Legutio; Army Warrant Officer Luis Conde de la Cruz in a similar attack on a barracks in Santoña (Cantabria); and retired businessman Inaxio Uria Mendizabal, gunned down in Azpeitia on his way to a pre-lunch card game with friends.

In 2007, six months after the end of its latest ceasefire, the armed organisation carried out an attack in Capbreton (France) against two civil guards, Raúl Centeno Fernando Trapero.

ETA officially announced the end of its 2006 ceasefire in June 2007, though in reality it had already been brought to an abrupt end on December 30th 2006 with a car-bomb attack on Barajas airport’s new Terminal 4 building in Madrid, which resulted in the deaths of two Ecuadorian citizens: Carlos Alonso Palate and Diego Armando Estacio.