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Joaquín Becerra Calvente worked at Tubos del Nervión in Amurrio, and often helped out in the two bars that his family ran in the town. On the night of 2 July 1980, two ETA members shot him seven times at the door of one of the premises. Joaquín’s sister alerted him that there were three people outside who claimed to have hit his car. When he went outside, he was met by two people who fired seven shots at him, killing him almost instantly.
Some days later, ETA claimed responsibility for the murder, accusing Joaquín of being a police informer. Responding to the attack, UGT, the trade union to which he belonged, said that “there can be no justification for the unjustifiable”. In response to the attack, workers at the Tubos del Nervión factory went on strike and most of the workforce joined a demonstration in the centre of Amurrio.
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