Posted on 09/03/2005 10:43:59 PM PDT by HAL9000
Bilbao, Spain, Sep 3 (EFE).- The terrorist organization ETA has sent a new batch of letters to businesses in Spain's Basque region demanding payment of a "revolutionary tax," local newspapers reported Saturday.Some of the recipients own small businesses that had previously not been the object of ETA extortion attempts.
Security forces have also seen flyers stamped with the ETA acronym in the Basque city of San Sebastian calling for a boycott of Basque companies that refuse to pay protection money. A document discovered by Spanish police in July listed the names of dozens of targeted businesses in the Basque country and neighboring region of Navarre, according to dailies El Correo and El Diario Vasco.
The letters have been arriving all summer, they reported, demanding between 6,000 and 18,000 euros ($7,320 and $21,960) from victims.
Some of the letters were sent to associates of business owners, and others to former employees. ETA, which stands for "Basque Homeland and Freedom," has killed more than 850 people since the 1960s in its campaign to form an independent Basque state in parts of northern Spain and southern France, collecting the so-called "revolutionary tax" to fund its activities.
I wonder what their current government is doing about it.
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