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Description
Born in: Euskadi
Age: 58
Offspring: 4Marital status: Married
Job: Colonel of the Spanish Army in active reserve
Date of the attack: 18/08/1986
Place of the attack: Legutio
Guilties: Francisco Antonio Cabello Pérez, Juan María Gabirondo Agote y Eduardo Sainz Lobato
Weapon: Gun
Killed by: ETA
Description
At around 6 pm, José María Picatoste González de Echávarri was with some relatives at the Astola restaurant in Villarreal de Álava/Legutiano. Two ETA members entered the establishment and waited at the bar for José María to leave the premises. As he was heading for his car with his wife, a niece and other couples, the terrorists followed him and one of them shot him four times with a pistol.
His wife was also injured by flying glass from the car when the terrorists fired at the victim. Two of the colonel’s children remained with his body for two hours until the body was removed.
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