Basque baker killed over blasts

[Aidoneus]

a hint at the sort of pogroms that the state had in mind when beating this drum?

Basque baker killed over blasts
Sunday 14 March 2004

A baker in Spain's Basque region has been shot dead by an off-duty policeman for his refusal to put up a sign in honour of Madrid's bomb victims.

The 61-year-old man, who ran a shop in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, died on Saturday after being taken to hospital.

He had refused a request by the policeman's wife to hang a black ribbon in his bakery as many other stores had done to commemorate the 200 people killed in Thursday's train blasts.

He did so because he belonged to an association of parents of youths suspected of links to the Basque separatist group ETA, initially blamed by the government for the attacks.

The woman ran upstairs to her nearby apartment to tell her husband, who came down and shot the baker. The policeman was arrested.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FE9B0173-2B5A-421E-9ECA-54DF46AA8AAC.htm

[stevedeshazer]

1. Sounds disturbingly familiar

It happened here in the US post-September 11th, 2001.

<snip>
Adel Karas, 48, a grocer from Egypt and a Coptic Christian, was killed Sept. 15 in his San Gabriel store.

Balbir Singh Sodhi was gunned down in Mesa, Ariz., on Sept. 15. The turban-wearing Sikh immigrant was shot and killed outside his Arizona gas station. In Phoenix, a suspect was charged with murder and held on $1 million bail after a shooting rampage in the days after the attack in which he targeted individuals he believed to be Muslim.

Waqar Hasan, 46, a Pakistani, shot to death Sept. 15 in his Dallas, Texas convenience store.

Ali Almansoop was an American, hardworking father of four. He was murdered Sept. 21 at his Detroit, Michigan home. Almansoop was a Yemen native. Prosecutors charged a Garden City man with first-degree murder in his shooting death.

Abdo Ali Ahmed, 51, a Yemeni shopkeeper, was killed in Reedley, California, on Sept. 29 after receiving a death threat and a hate note deriding his ethnicity. Ahmed was a father of eight who had lived in California for 35 years.

Abdullah Nimer, 53, a Palestinian American and father of six, was murdered Oct. 13 while selling clothing door to door in South Los Angeles.

http://www.hanania.com/hatevictims.html

They hurt what they don't understand....

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. I guess you could say that the cop is "Toby Keith a La Espana"

[ithacan]

3. wow, a Bush supporter in Spain...

they're all cut from the same cloth

[NV1962]

4. The idiot

http://elmundo.es/elmundo/2004/03/13/espana/1079188678.html

That moron cop is suspended; his son is detained.

[burrowowl]

5. Well, it has been confirmed

Under Franco the policia national was know as the guardia civil.
When is Spain going to become really deomcratic and kick the Opus Dei king and heirs OUT!