Vicente Garcerá López

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Born in: Comunidad Valenciana
Age: 29
Offspring: 1
Marital status: Married
Job: National Police Agent
Date of the attack: 17/04/1982
Place of the attack: Pamplona
Guilties: Manuel Víctor Tomás Salvador Labat e Iñaki Aldecoa (encubrimiento); Miguel María Ayensa Arribas (colaboración); Juan José Legorburu y Mercedes Galdós (autores materiales)
Weapon: Others explosives
Killed by: ETA

Description

In the early hours of 17 April 1982, members of ETA’s Nafarroa unit hid in the vicinity of the Magdalena Bridge in Pamplona, armed with a veritable arsenal of weapons of war: a grenade launcher, two assault rifles, several grenades and various ammunition. At 3:05 am they spotted a National Police tankette returning from guarding the Fuerzas Eléctricas substation and heading towards the Beloso barracks. One of the terrorists fired an anti-tank grenade which pierced the roof of the vehicle and exploded inside. The driver, 29-year-old Vicente Garcerá, caught the full impact of the blast and lost control of the vehicle, which ended up crashing into a garden area. He was taken to the Hospital de Navarra, where he died while doctors were preparing to operate. Vicente was married and had one daughter.

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