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- TERRA LLIURE
- 10/28/92
- GP00035
-
- KEY WORDS:
-
- FREE LAND; TL
- DESCRIPTION:
- A LEFT WING CATALONIAN SEPARATIST TERRORIST GROUP FORMED IN THE 1970S
- WITH THE GOAL OF ESTABLISHING AN INDEPENDENT MARXIST STATE IN THE SPANISH
- PROVINCES OF VALENCIA AND CATALONIA.
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- ACTIVITIES:
- PRIMARILY SMALL-SCALE BOMBINGS AGAINST PROPERTY IN NORTHEASTERN SPAIN.
- TARGETS INCLUDE FOREIGN BANKS AND TRAVEL AGENCIES.
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- STRENGTH:
- UNKNOWN
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- SELECTED RECENT INCIDENT CHRONOLOGY
-
- JULY, 1987:
- A BOMB DETONATED IN FRONT OF THE BANCO HISPANO-AMERICANO IN
- BARCELONA. THERE WERE NO INJURIES. TERRA LLIURE CLAIMED
- RESPONSIBILITY.
- OCTOBER, 1987:
- A BOMB DETONATED IN A STAIRWELL OUTSIDE OF THE REAR ENTRANCE OF
- THE U.S. CONSULATE IN BARCELONA. EIGHT PERSONS WERE INJURED. TWO
- GROUPS CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ATTACK: TERRA LLIURE, AND THE
- RED ARMY FOR THE LIBERATION OF CATALONIA (ERCA).
-
- DECEMBER, 1987:
- TWO EXPLOSIVE DEVICES WERE THROWN INTO THE "IRUNA" BAR IN
- BARCELONA, WHICH WAS THE TEMPORARY QUARTERS OF THE USO. ONE
- AMERICAN SAILOR DIED OF HIS INJURIES AND NINE OTHER U.S. SAILORS
- WERE INJURED. THE RED ARMY FOR THE LIBERATION OF CATALONIA (ERCA)
- AND TERRA LLIURE CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY.
-
- MARCH, 1988:
- TERRA LLIURE CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BOMBING OF THE BRITISH
- CONSULATE IN BARCELONA IN SYMPATHY FOR THE IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY.
-
- MARCH, 1988:
- TWO BOMBS DETONATED IN BARCELONA. ONE WAS DIRECTED AT A CIVIL
- GUARDS BARRACKS; AND A WOMAN WAS INJURED. THE SECOND BOMB
- DAMAGED AN ELECTRICAL TRANSFORMER. TERRA LLIURE CLAIMED
- RESPONSIBILITY.
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- MAY, 1988:
- ELEVEN PERSONS WERE INJURED IN BARCELONA AS A RESULT OF TWO BOMBS
- WHICH EXPLODED WITHIN 15 MINUTES OF EACH OTHER AT A BANK. TERRA
- LLIURE CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY.
-
- JULY, 1988:
- THREE BOMBS DETONATED IN BARCELONA ON THE MORNING OF JULY 17. THE
- BOMBINGS TOOK PLACE AT THE OFFICES OF THE ELECTRIC COMPANY, AN
- UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE AND A BANK BRANCH. A FOURTH DEVICE WAS FOUND
- AT ANOTHER UNEMPLOYMENT OFFICE AND DISARMED. TWO PERSONS WERE
- INJURED IN THE THREE EXPLOSIONS. TERRA LLIURE CLAIMED
- RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BOMBINGS WHICH WERE CARRIED OUT TO PROTEST
- THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NUCLEAR POWER STATION AND THE 1992 OLYMPIC
- GAMES TO BE HELD IN BARCELONA.
-
- AUGUST, 1988:
- A BOMB DETONATED AT A BAR LOCATED IN BARCELONA'S RED LIGHT
- DISTRICT. THE BAR WAS LOCATED BEHIND A CIVIL GUARDS BARRACKS.
- THERE WERE NO REPORTED INJURIES. TERRA LLIURE CLAIMED
- RESPONSIBILITY.
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- AUGUST, 1988:
- TWO BOMBS DETONATED IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS OF AUGUST 25, 1988.
- ONE DEVICE DETONATED AT 3:15 AM, AND THE SECOND AT 4:30 AM. BOTH
- BOMBS DETONATED IN FRONT OF BANKS IN BARCELONA. TERRA LLIURE
- CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY STATING THAT THE BOMBINGS WERE IN
- RETALIATION OF THE BANKS' SUPPORT OF THE 1992 OLYMPIC GAMES.
-
- MAY, 1989:
- TERRA LLIURE CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE BOMBING OF A CIVIL WAR
- MEMORIAL ON THE ISLAND OF MALLORCA. THERE WERE NO INJURIES.
-
- SEPTEMBER, 1989:
- TERRA LLIURE CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR AN ATTACK ON A CIVIL GUARD
- POST IN GERONA PROVINCE IN WHICH TWO CIVIL GUARDS WERE SERIOUSLY
- WOUNDED.
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- SEPTEMBER, 1989:
- TERRA LLIURE WARNED THAT THE 1992 BARCELONA OLYMPICS WILL CONTINUE
- TO BE THE GROUP'S "PRIMARY" TARGET.
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- MARCH, 1990:
- THREE BOMBS DETONATED ON MARCH 9, 1990, OUTSIDE THREE COURTHOUSES
- IN BARCELONA. THERE WERE NO REPORTED CASUALTIES. TERRA LLIURE
- CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY.
-
- JULY, 1991:
- SPANISH MEDIA SOURCES REPORTED THAT TERRA LLIURE HAD UNDERGONE AN
- INTERNAL DIVISION IN WHICH THE LEADERSHIP OF THE GROUP AND A
- SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE RANK AND FILE HAD VOTED TO CEASE
- TERRORIST ACTIVITIES.
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- OCTOBER, 1991:
- A BOMB WAS FOUND IN GOVERNMENT OFFICES IN GERONA. THE DEVICE WAS
- DISARMED. WHILE NO PERSON OR GROUP CLAIMED RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
- DEVICE, CIVIL GUARDS SOURCES STATED IT WAS OF THE TYPE USED BY
- TERRA LLIURE, AND THAT THE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE IN AN AREA OF SPAIN
- IN WHICH TERRA LLIURE HAD HISTORICALLY OPERATED.
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- THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS DERIVED FROM DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND PUBLIC MEDIA
- SOURCE DOCUMENTS.
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