Ignacio Uría Mendizábal (4 January 1938 – 3 December 2008) was a Spanish

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businessman and head of construction company, Altuna y Uría.

Death

Uría was shot dead on 3 December 2008 outside a restaurant.Eta shoots dead businessman working on high-speed Spanish train link
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'' The attack was blamed on

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. He had received threats from ETA. Uría had been working on a high-speed train route between the

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and

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. ETA threatened several companies and their workers involved in the train project as it viewed such construction as an imposition on the Basque Country by the Spanish and French governments.

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Death

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