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Former Eta members jailed for trying to kill journalist couple with flowerpot bomb

Graffiti of the now dissolved Basque terrorist group Eta on a wall in Bilbao in 2015.
Graffiti of the now dissolved Basque terrorist group Eta on a wall in Bilbao in 2015. Photograph: Graham Whitby-Boot/Sportsphoto/Allstar

Four former members of the Basque terrorist group Eta have been jailed for almost 75 years each for attempting to murder two journalists and their toddler son by stuffing a plant pot outside the family’s home with explosives and shrapnel.

Aurora Intxausti, a journalist for El País, her husband, Juan Palomo, a reporter for Antena 3 TV, and 18-month-old son, Íñigo, were targeted as part of Eta’s “socialisation of suffering” terror campaign, which sought to inflict the maximum possible pain across Basque society in order to achieve independence from Spain.

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