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Born in: La Rioja
Age: 48
Offspring: 3Marital status: Married
Job: Chief of the Municipal Police of Beasáin
Date of the attack: 09/03/1979
Place of the attack: Beasain
Weapon: Gun
Killed by: ETA
Description
In 1976 Miguel Chávarri received an anonymous letter from ETA, reading “Prepare to die very soon”.
On 9 March 1979, while he was reading the newspaper in an office at the Beasáin police station, two terrorists entered and shot him nine times at close range. The victim had been working in Beasain for over twenty-one years. Two years before he had been promoted from corporal to sergeant. There were no witnesses to the attack and no one heard the shots.
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