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This is bollocks not supported by either source, which just says that they saw him as responsible for "oppression". He was in no way a "proponent" of a regime that ended 20 years later if he actually dismantled it |
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The [[Basques|Basque]] separatist group [[Euskadi Ta Askatasuna]] (ETA) prepared an attack on the then [[King of Spain]] [[Juan Carlos I of Spain|Juan Carlos I]] in the summer of 1995.
Juan Carlos spent his holidays at [[Mallorca]]. A three-man ETA command had rented an apartment in [[Palma de Mallorca]] in the district of Porto Pí. From there it is possible to see the part of the harbor where the holiday yacht of Juan Carlos I was located. In the apartment, the ETA command had a [[Mauser]] precision rifle, [[7.62 mm caliber|caliber 7.62]] with [[silencer (firearm)|silencer]], [[riflescope]], [[bipod]] and [[Expanding bullet|Dum-Dum projectiles]] ready. A sniper would shoot the king on his motor yacht about 250 meters away.<ref name=attempt>{{cite web |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/50-jahre-eta-terror-im-namen-der-freiheit-a-639639.html|title=50 Jahre Eta: Terror im Namen der Freiheit (50 years of ETA: terror in the name of freedom) |publisher=[[Der Spiegel]]|access-date=1 November 2019}}</ref> The coup was eventually discovered, resulting in the arrest of the command in August 1995 by the special unit of the [[Spanish police]] ([[Grupo Especial de Operaciones|GEO]]).
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