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Description
Born in: Bilbo
Age: 29
Offspring: 0Marital status: Single
Job: ETA leader and machine operator
Date of the attack: 30/12/1980
Place of the attack: Biarritz
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: BVE
Description
On the morning of 30 December 1980, José Martin Sagardia Zaldúa left his home in Biarritz (France) to go to work. At around 7.00 am, he got into his partner’s Renault-12 and started the engine. A bomb containing three kilograms of Goma-2 went off, blowing up the car. José Martín Sagardia was killed instantly and two people in the surrounding area suffered minor injuries. The far-right terrorist group the Basque-Spanish Battalion (Batallón Vasco-Español) claimed responsibility for the murder.
José Martín Sagardia Zaldúa, alias Usurbil, fled to France in 1973 as a result of his membership of ETA. He was employed in a furniture factory in Biarritz and had succeeded José Miguel Beñaran, alias Argala, as ETA militar leader.
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