Editing ETA (separatist group) (section)

===Victims===
[[File: Txema Agirre Plaza placa.jpg|thumb|Flowers and a plate remember [[Ertzaina]] officer José "Txema" Agirre, shot dead by ETA gunmen in 1997 while protecting the [[Guggenheim Bilbao Museum]] (visible in the background)]]
[[File:Balmasedako auzitegia 2006.jpg|thumb|Repairs to the [[Balmaseda]] law courts after a bombing in 2006]]

ETA's targets expanded from military or police-related personnel and their families to a wider array, which included the following:{{Clarify|date=April 2009}}

* Fascist leaders, such as Prime Minister Admiral [[Luis Carrero Blanco]], Franco's successor was killed in a bombing on December 20, 1973.
* Spanish military and police personnel, active duty or retired.<ref>{{cite book|title=Terrorist Group Profiles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=55BZmIJ9xd8C&pg=PA37|access-date=30 January 2011|date=1 August 1989|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=978-1-56806-864-0|pages=37–}}</ref> The barracks of the [[Guardia Civil (Spain)|Guardia Civil]] also provide housing for their families, thus, attacks on the barracks have also resulted in deaths of relatives, including children. As the regional police ([[Ertzaintza]] in the Basque Country and [[Mossos d'Esquadra]] in Catalonia) took a greater role in combating ETA, they were added to their list of targets.
* Businessmen (such as [[Javier Ybarra Bergé|Javier Ybarra]] and Ignacio Uria Mendizabal):<ref>[http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/ETA/asesina/empresario/nacionalista/elpepiesp/20081204elpepinac_2/Tes ETA asesina a un empresario Nacionalista · ELPAÍS.com]. Elpais.com. Retrieved on 30 January 2011.</ref> these are mainly targeted in order to [[extortion|extort]] them for the so-called "[[revolutionary tax]]". Refusal to pay has been punished with assassinations, kidnappings for ransom or bombings of their business.
* Prison officers such as [[José Antonio Ortega Lara]].
* Elected parliamentarians, city councillors and ex-councillors, politicians in general: most prominently [[Luis Carrero Blanco]] (killed in 1973). Dozens of politicians belonging to the [[People's Party (Spain)|People's Party]] (PP) and [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] (PSOE) were assassinated or maimed. Some Basque nationalist politicians from the PNV party, such as [[Juan Mari Atutxa]], also received threats. Hundreds of politicians in Spain required a constant bodyguard service. Bodyguards are contingent victims as well. In 2005 ETA announced that it would no longer "target" elected politicians.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/20/spain.dalefuchs|work=The Guardian |location=London |title=Anger and doubts greet promise by Eta not to target Spanish politicians|first=Dale|last=Fuchs|date=20 June 2005|access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref> Nonetheless, ETA killed ex-council member [[Isaías Carrasco]] in [[Mondragón|Mondragon/Arrasate]] on 7 March 2008.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/08/spain?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews|work=The Guardian |location=London |title=Spain cancels election rallies after murder|first=Paul|last=Hamilos|date=8 March 2008|access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref>
* Judges and prosecutors.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/963869.stm|work=BBC News  |title=Spanish prosecutor shot dead|date=9 October 2000|access-date=27 March 2010}}</ref> Particularly threatened were the members of the Spanish anti-terrorist court: the ''[[Audiencia Nacional (Spain)|Audiencia Nacional]]''.
* University professors who publicly expressed ideas that countered armed Basque separatism: such as [[Manuel Broseta]] or [[Francisco Tomás y Valiente]]. In the latter case, the shooting resulted in more than half a million people protesting against ETA.<ref>{{cite news |last=Simons |first=Marlise |date=18 July 1997 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E6DA1E38F93BA25754C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |title=Spain Turns on Rebels With Outrage |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=30 January 2011}}</ref>
* Journalists: some of these professionals began to be labelled by ETA as targets starting with the killing of journalist [[José Luis López de la Calle]], assassinated in May 2000.
* Economic targets: a wide array of private or public property considered valuable assets of Spain, especially railroads, tourist sites, industries, or malls.
* Exceptionally, ETA also assassinated former ETA members such as [[María Dolores Katarain]] as a reprisal for having left the group.<ref name = "hizrqw">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/701371.stm |work=BBC News |title=Spanish cinema breaks ETA taboo |date=4 April 2000 |access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref>
* A number of ETA attacks by car bomb caused random civilian casualties, like ETA's bloodiest attack, [[Hipercor bombing|the bombing in 1987]] of the subterranean parking lot of the Hipercor supermarket in Barcelona<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tkb.org/MorePatterns.jsp?countryCd=SP&year=1987|title=MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base|access-date=29 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805175550/http://www.tkb.org/MorePatterns.jsp?countryCd=SP&year=1987|archive-date=5 August 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Ana María |last=Ortiz |url=http://www.elmundo.es/cronica/2002/347/1023693099.html |title=Jessica, la ultima victima de Hipercor |work=Crónica El Mundo |issue=347 |date=9 June 2002}}</ref> which killed 21 civilians and left 45 seriously wounded, of whom 20 were left disabled; also the attack of Plaza de Callao in Madrid.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/829838.stm |title=Madrid bomb injures eight |work=BBC News |date=12 July 2000}}</ref>