Editing GAL (paramilitary group) (section)

== {{anchor|Chronology of attacks}}Timeline ==
* {{em|1983}}
**October 17: Kidnapping and assassination of alleged ETA members [[Killing of Lasa and Zabala|Joxe Lasa Arostegi and José Ignacio Zabala]].<ref name="ElPai">{{cite news | url=http://elpais.com/diario/1995/03/24/espana/795999604_850215.html | title=La Guardia Civil pensó que la muerte de Zabala y Lasa era un ajuste de cuentas | website=[[El País]] | date=24 March 1995 | access-date=23 April 2013 | archive-date=28 November 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131128225722/http://elpais.com/diario/1995/03/24/espana/795999604_850215.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Their mutilated bodies were found in [[Province of Alicante|Alicante]] in 1985, but not formally identified until 1995.<ref name="ElPai"/> Several Civil Guard officers were convicted.
**October 18: Attempted kidnapping in [[Bayonne]] of alleged ETA leader José Mari Larretxea Goñi by four Spanish [[Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (Spain)|policemen]].<ref name="ELP01">{{cite news | url=http://elpais.com/diario/1995/01/29/espana/791334003_850215.html | title=Los años del talión | website=[[El País]] | language=Spanish | date=29 January 1995 | access-date=23 April 2013 | archive-date=28 November 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128075224/https://elpais.com/diario/1995/01/29/espana/791334003_850215.html | url-status=live }}</ref> The four officers were arrested by French [[Gendarmerie|gendarmes]]. 
**December 4: [[Marey case|Kidnapping of Segundo Marey]]<ref name="ELP01"/> by mercenaries hired by the Spanish police, who demanded the liberation of the four police officers arrested for the attempted kidnapping of Larraetxea. The officers were released on December 8, and Marey on December 13. Marey, not related to ETA, was apparently kidnapped by mistake. 
**December 19: Assassination of alleged ETA member Ramón Oñaederra in Bayonne<ref name="ELP01"/>
**December 29: Assassination of alleged ETA leader Mikel Goikoetxea in [[Saint-Jean-de-Luz]]<ref name="ELP01"/> by a mercenary sniper 
*{{em|1984}}
**February 8: Assassination of alleged ETA members Vicente Perurena and Angel Gurmindo in [[Hendaye]]<ref>[http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1984/02/09/pagina-3/32827741/pdf.html Dos dirigentes de ETA, asesinados en Hendaya] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623030126/http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1984/02/09/pagina-3/32827741/pdf.html |date=2015-06-23 }}, La Vanguardia, 9 February 1984, p4</ref>
**February 25: Sniper assassination of alleged ETA member Eugenio Gutiérrez Salazar in [[Idaux-Mendy|Mendi]]<ref name="ELP01"/>
**March 1: Assassination of railroad worker Jean Pierre Leyba in [[Hendaye]]<ref name="ELP01"/>
**March 19: GAL mercenary Jean-Pierre Cherid dies in [[Biarritz]]<ref name="ELP01"/> when the bomb he is planting explodes prematurely.
**March 23: Assassination of alleged ETA leader [[Javier Pérez Arenaza]] in Biarritz<ref name="ELP01"/>
**May 3: Assassination of alleged ETA member Rafael Goikoetxea in [[Baigorri]]. His companion, [[Jesús Zugarramurdi]], is injured.<ref name="ELP01"/> ETA kills industrialist Ángel Rodríguez, whom they accused of assisting the GAL, that day.<ref name="ELP01"/>
**May 26: Kidnapping and torture of Rafael and Endika Lorenzo, members of the anti-nuclear committees in [[Algorta]] ([[Getxo]], [[Biscay]]) 
**June 15: Assassination of alleged ETA member Tomás Pérez Revilla by a bomb hidden in a motorcycle in Biarritz. His companion, Ramón Orbe, is injured.<ref name="ELP01"/>
**July 10: Bomb attack on the Consolation tavern, injuring three<ref name="ELP01"/>
**November 18: Assassination of dancer Christian Olaskoaga in [[Biriatou]]. Olaskoaga was not known to have ETA connections.<ref name="ELP01"/>
**November 20: Assassination of [[Santiago Brouard]], leader of [[Herri Alderdi Sozialista Iraultzailea|HASI]], in his physician's office in [[Bilbao]]<ref name="ELP01"/>
**December 11: Attack injuring José Iradier in [[Hendaye]]<ref name="ELP01"/>
*{{em|1985}}
**February 1: Attack injuring [[Herri Taldeak]] leader [[Xabier Manterola]]
**February 5: Bomb attack injuring Christian Casteigts in Bayonne. Casteigts was not known to have ETA connections.
**March 4: An attack on the Lagunequin bar in Bayonne injures two.<ref name="ELP01"/>
**March 26: Assassination attempt on alleged ETA member Ramón Basañez Jauregi in Bayonne, seriously injuring him<ref name="ELP01"/>
**March 29: Attack on Les Pyreneés tavern in Bayonne. Five people (one of whom was allegedly an ETA member) were injured, one fatally.<ref name="ELP01"/>
**March 30: Assassination of photojournalist Xabier Galdeano in [[Saint-Jean-de-Luz]]<ref name="ELP01"/>
**June 14: Attack on the Trinkete tavern in [[Ciboure]]. Two people were killed,<ref name="ELP01"/> neither known to have ETA connections.<ref name="ELP01"/>
**June 26: Assassination of alleged ETA member Santos Blanco González in Bayonne.<ref name="ELP01"/>
**July 8: Juan Carlos Lacertúa is injured in an attack on the Vittor Bar in Ciboure.<ref name="ELP01"/>
**July 16: A bomb is discovered attached to the car of Fernando Eguilior in Anglet.<ref name="ELP01"/>
**August 2: ETA member Juan María Otaegui Elizegui ("Txato") is killed in [[Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port]].<ref name="ELP01"/>
**August 31: Assassination of Dominique Labeyrie in St. Jean de Luz.<ref name="ELP01"/> Labeyrie had no known ETA connections.
**September 25: [[Monbar Hotel attack]] in Bayonne kills ETA members José Mari Etxaniz, Iñaki Asteazu Izarra, Agustín Irazustabarrena and Sabin Etxaide Ibarguren.<ref name="LV1">{{cite news | url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1985/09/26/pagina-15/32868707/pdf.html | title=Los cuatro víctimas del atentado de Bayona pueden ser miembros de ETA militar | work=[[La Vanguardia]] | language=Spanish | date=26 September 1985 | page=15 | access-date=23 April 2013 | archive-date=3 September 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903202249/http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1985/09/26/pagina-15/32868707/pdf.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
**December 24: Robert Caplanne is fatally injured in Biarritz. Caplanne had no known ETA connections.
*{{em|1986}}
**February 8: Attack on the Batxoki tavern injures three.
**February 17: Assassination of Christophe Matxikote and Catherine Brion, who had no ETA connections. GAL did not claim responsibility but Miguel Brecia (with known links to the groups) was convicted of the attack, and the court considered it a GAL attack.<ref>[http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1999/06/05/031.html La Audencia ordena investigar a Interior por dos asesinatos del GAL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216002452/http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1999/06/05/031.html |date=2013-12-16 }}, ABC (Madrid), 5 June 1999, p31</ref>
*{{em|1987}}
**July 24: Assassination of Juan Carlos García Goena, unconnected with ETA. Although GAL did not claim responsibility, the mercenaries who killed him accused GAL of ordering it.