Hundreds Protest Separatist Violence
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Hundreds of people gathered outside a town hall in Roses to protest the latest apparent Basque separatist violence, as Spain’s main political parties condemned two car bomb attacks blamed on the group ETA.
Police officer Santos Santamaria Avedano, 32, was killed Saturday night when a car bomb went off as he was evacuating guests from a hotel in Roses, 60 miles northeast of Barcelona, authorities said.
About five hours later, police carried out a controlled explosion of another car bomb in the eastern coastal resort town of Gandia, 270 miles to the southwest. Police believe the bombers used cars and explosives stolen in France.
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