Ignacio Uria Mendizabal
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Ignacio Uría Mendizábal was a Spanish
Basque
businessman and head of construction company, Altuna y Uría.
Uría was shot dead on December 3, 2008 outside of a restaurant. The attack was blamed on ETA
. He had received threats from ETA. Uría had been working on a high-speed train route between the Basque Country
and Madrid
. Eta has threatened several companies and their workers involved in the train project as it views such construction as an imposition on the Basque Country by the Spanish and French
governments.
Spanish people
The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....
Basque
Basque people
The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...
businessman and head of construction company, Altuna y Uría.
Uría was shot dead on December 3, 2008 outside of a restaurant. The attack was blamed on ETA
ETA
ETA , an acronym for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna is an armed Basque nationalist and separatist organization. The group was founded in 1959 and has since evolved from a group promoting traditional Basque culture to a paramilitary group with the goal of gaining independence for the Greater Basque Country...
. He had received threats from ETA. Uría had been working on a high-speed train route between the Basque Country
Basque Country (autonomous community)
The Basque Country is an autonomous community of northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, also called Historical Territories....
and Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
. Eta has threatened several companies and their workers involved in the train project as it views such construction as an imposition on the Basque Country by the Spanish and French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
governments.