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Thu 12 Dec 2008Businessman who refused to pay Eta extortion killed
JUST TWO weeks after French police arrested Garikoitz Aspiazu, the alleged leader of Eta, two gunmen yesterday afternoon shot and killed Ignacio Uria, a leading Basque businessman, as he left his office to meet a group of friends in a restaurant for a game of cards, writes Jane Walkerin Madrid
Police have little doubt that the killing, in the small town of Azpeitia, was the work of Eta as Mr Uria (71) is known to have received threats for his refusal to pay "revolutionary taxes" or extortion money. In spite of this, he did not use a bodyguard or change his regular routine.
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