Muerte en Amara

Muerte en Amara follows the investigation by Gaizka Fernández and Manuel Aguilar into the case of Begoña Urroz, a 20-month-old girl killed in a terrorist bomb attack at Amara station in San Sebastian in 1960. She was the first child of a young couple, born in Beintza-Labaien, Navarre, who had emigrated to Gipuzkoa in search of a better life. The justice system under Franco shelved the case without making any arrests, after which it was forgotten.

In 2000, Ernest Lluch brought the story back onto the news agenda with a controversial revelation: he claimed to have discovered that Begoña was the first victim of ETA.

Following on from this idea, in 2010 the Congress of Deputies officially recognised Begoña as the first person killed by ETA, when the Victims of Terrorism Protection Act was unanimously passed. The case seemed to have been cleared up for good.

But some historians and journalists questioned this official version, given the lack of supporting evidence. They suggested an alternative hypothesis: the DRIL (Iberian Revolutionary Liberation Directory). This was a forgotten and mysterious Spanish-Portuguese organisation, made up of exiles in Cuba and Venezuela, opposed to the Franco and Salazar dictatorships.

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