Ainhoa Romero García (100432196), 23/02/2021
Factsheet – Terrorism.
Terrorist event: Cafeteria Rolando Bombing
1. Characteristics of the terrorist group.
Dates:13 September 1974.
Location: Madrid, Spain.
Terrorist group: ETA.
- Ideology: Basque Nationalism, Revolutionary socialism, European Federalism
- Motivation: Nationalism of the Basque country, “fight” for the Basque
liberalisation.
- Objectives: The Basque “liberation”; change of the political system by enforcing
a separatist state for the Basques
- Opposing actors: Spain and France
- Strategy: ETA argue that they were following a strategy based on the
achievement of political objectives. They followed an armed action of offensive
character against the repressive institutions.
The target was the police officers from the General Directorate of Security.
However, only one of the thirteen victims in the attack turned out to be a police
officer. ETA did not acknowledge responsibility for the attack and later admitted
in internal documents that this type of attack, together with the subsequent
arrival of the democratic transition, had "placed the people in a more critical
position against our action".
- Consequences: It supposed a confusion period since it is the first known ETA
attack to civilians. At first, people blamed the attack to the far- right and later
blamed the Communist Party (PCE). It had mainly domestic consequences and
supposed the rupture of ETA in to wings, military ETA and political-military
ETA.
