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MADRID, Spain — The armed Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility Wednesday for the recent slaying of a businessman and warned of attacks on the region’s high- speed rail project.
In a statement published on the newspaper Gara’s website, ETA said it carried out the Dec. 3 shooting of 71-year-old Ignacio Uria Mendizabal because he failed to make extortion payments and because of his construction company’s involvement in the building of high-speed train links in the northern Spanish region.
The group said it would launch more attacks on the train project, which would link the region to Madrid via bullet trains for the first time. ETA sees this as enhancing the idea of the Basque region being part of Spain.
