CATÁLOGOS DEL CENTRO MEMORIAL
DE LAS VÍCTIMAS DEL TERRORISMO, Nº 1. 5
LOOKING BACK AT HIPERCOR, 30 YEARS AFTER THE BOMB ATTACK
On Friday 19 June 1987, several members of the terrorist organisation ETA, Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Basque Country and Freedom), parked a car bomb in the carpark of the Hipercor shopping centre on Meridiana Avenue, Barcelona. Their aim was to attack companies with French capital and they believed Hipercor was one such company. At about 16.08 the bomb exploded, killing 21 people and wounding another 45 customers and employees of the centre. It was the biggest massacre perpetrated by ETA in the course of its history, which includes over 800 murders.
Thirty years have passed since the Hipercor bomb attack. This exhibition recalls those events by focusing on their consequences: the victims of terrorism, the social and political response to the crime, or the trial of those responsible for it.
