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Spanish police killed five workers and hundreds of shooting wounded in Vitoria

48
years ago

03 March 1976,

The Spanish police killed five workers and hundreds of shooting wounded in Vitoria. The general strike was called and hundreds of workers were united in the church of Zaramaga. The police threw the tear gas inside and when they began to go out in the street they were shot. On the stately radio of the police recorded how they said “tell Salinas that we have contributed to the greatest beating in history.”

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