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Born in: Castilla y León
Age: 48
Offspring: 1
Marital status: Married
Job: Chief of the Municipal Police of Munguía
Date of the attack: 12/02/1979
Place of the attack: Mungia
Guilties: José Luis Bengoa García
Weapon: Gun
Killed by: ETA

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César Pinilla Sanz, the head of the Municipal Police of Munguía, was assassinated by ETA at around 9:20 pm on 12 February 1979. He had finished work for the day and was walking back to his home in Bermeo, still in uniform. A number of ETA terrorists, who had hijacked a car in Guecho at gunpoint, came up from behind and shot him in the back of the neck.

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