1980s 1990s 2000s A car bombing was carried out by the Basque separatist organisation ETA on 16 September 1991 in the town of Mutxamel (Spanish: Muchamiel) near Alicante.
[2] To commit the attack, ETA used a Ford Fiesta, bearing false number plates, which had been stolen months earlier in the Basque country, loading it with 50 kilos of explosives.
They used an anti-theft bar, attached to the steering wheel, to guide the direction, ignition and gears and pushed the driverless car towards the barracks.
[3] Inside the car pound, the bomb exploded, with the tow truck driver and the two police accompanying him killed instantly.
[3] In 1995, Gonzalo Rodriguez Cordero and Jose Gabriel Zabala Erasun were each sentenced to 136 years in prison for unlawful use of motor vehicles, unlawfully replacing license plates, possession of explosives and as participants in a crime of assault, three of murder, four of causing injuries and one of terrorism.