The murder of Lasa and Zabala was one of the first acts carried out by the GAL, a state sponsored death squad,[1][2] Basques José Antonio Lasa and José Ignacio Zabala were kidnapped, tortured and executed in 1983.
This action was organized by a paramilitary group called GAL which subsequent trials found to have been established by figures within the PSOE government.[3] Alleged ETA militants Joxean Lasa and Joxi Zabala, while getting into a friend's car, were kidnapped by non-uniformed members of the Spanish police in Bayonne[4] (Labourd-French Basque Country).
They were secretly taken to San Sebastián, and locked up in a house, La Cumbre, property of the government always in Spanish Police's (Guardia Civil) hands. For a long time, these two men from the municipality of Tolosa, were interrogated and tortured by several operatives.[5] Eventually they were ordered to murder Lasa and Zabala.
In order to commit the crime, the hostages were transferred to Alicante. There, they were forced to dig their own graves, and then, they were shot dead.[6] Finally, the executors covered the dead bodies with quicklime to accelerate their decomposition, and eliminate or minimize any evidence of the crime.[7][8][9]
^"Spain's state-sponsored death squads". BBC News. 29 July 1998. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^Wilkinson, Isambard (2 March 2002). "Payback for Eta in the Pays Basque". The Daily Telegraph. London.
^"Ex-minister jailed in 'dirty war' scandal". BBC News. 29 July 1998. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^La cal viva no enterró la guerra sucia Archived 2012-01-21 at the Wayback Machine Gara, October 15th, 2008
^Lasa y Zabala estuvieron secuestrados en un palacio del Ministerio del Interior en San Sebastián El País, July 30, 1995
^Estrasburgo convalida el fallo del 'caso Lasa-Zabala' El País, 3 November 2010
^Los forenses de San Sebastián recaban datos de las familias de Lasa y Zabala El País, March 31, 1995
^Un policía de Alicante, actuando por su cuenta, logró la identificación de los cadáveres de Lasa y Zabala El País, March 22, 1995
^La segunda autopsia no ofrece ninguna duda El País, March 22, 1995
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