Ignacio Uría Mendizábal
Ignacio Uría Mendizábal (4 January 1938 – 3 December 2008) was a Spanish Basque businessman[1] and head of construction company, Altuna y Uría.[2]
Death[]
Uría was shot dead on 3 December 2008 outside a restaurant.[3] 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 threatened several companies and their workers involved in the train project as it viewed such construction as an imposition on the Basque Country by the Spanish and French governments.
See also[]
- List of unsolved murders
References[]
- ^ "Spanish businessman shot in Basque country". euronews. 3 December 2008. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
- ^ Spanish businessman 'shot by Eta' BBC News
- ^ Eta shoots dead businessman working on high-speed Spanish train link The Times
Categories:
- 1937 births
- 2008 deaths
- Businesspeople from the Basque Country (autonomous community)
- Deaths by firearm in Spain
- Male murder victims
- People from Azpeitia
- People killed by ETA (separatist group)
- People murdered in Spain
- 20th-century Spanish businesspeople
- Spanish murder victims
- Spanish terrorism victims
- Unsolved murders in Spain