BARCELONA — 1987 · Major Tragedy
Hipercor Bombing
At 16:12 on 19 June 1987, a bomb planted by the Basque separatist group ETA exploded in a car parked in the underground car park of the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona. Fuel added to the explosive caused a fire and toxic smoke that spread through the building; 21 people were killed and 45 injured. Three warning calls had been made beforehand, but because bomb threats were considered routine the store was not evacuated, and a police search found nothing. As ETA's deadliest attack on civilians, it provoked a backlash even among the group's support base. The two militants who carried it out were sentenced in 1989, and a member who took part and the member who ordered it were sentenced in 2003, to prison terms of hundreds of years.
- Date
- 1987
- Place
- Catalonia, Spain, Barcelona, ES
- Category
- Major Tragedy
- Case Status
- Solved
- Coordinates
- 41.4097, 2.1890 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 19 June 1987, 16:12A bomb exploded in the Hipercor car park; 21 people died.
- September 1987The two ETA militants who carried out the attack were arrested.
- October 1989The two militants were sentenced to hundreds of years in prison.
- July 2003A member who took part and the member who ordered the attack were also convicted.
Sources
- ABC — Hoy se cumplen 22 años del atentado de Hipercor abc.es ↗
- Wikipedia — Hipercor bombing en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Wikipedia (ES) — Atentado de Hipercor es.wikipedia.org ↗
- ABC
- Wikipedia
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