What the records say
- When
- 3 Mar 1976
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 5
- Coordinates
- 42.86° N, 2.67° W
- Description
- massacre in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country of Spain, perpetrated on 3 March 1976
1976 Vitoria massacre
1976 massacre in the Basque Country
On March 3, 1976, the Spanish Armed Police Corps used tear gas to force striking workers out of the parish church of San Francisco de Asís in the Basque capital of Vitoria-Gasteiz. As the workers left the church, they were shot by police, resulting in five dead and 150 injured with gunshot wounds. The same police later described the events as a massacre.
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- Wikidata: massacres and genocidesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “150 people are injured and 5 die following a police shooting at a church in Vitoria-Gasteiz during the Vitoria massacre”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “un enfrentamiento de la Policía Armada con trabajadores en huelga en Zaramaga resulta con cinco trabajadores fallecidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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