Aristos
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Well, I wasn't born at the time. I guess many people celebrated it, but that was done in the very very center of Madrid at rush our in the morning, so they could very well have caused a huge bloodbath (which fortunately they didn't).
That story was really weird: the guys rented a basement in arguably the most important part of the city and passed themselves off as artists. They were supposed to be sculptors chiseling away at their creations in their studio, so when the neighbours heard the noises coming from there they didn't suspect anything. Actually, they were digging a tunnel so that they could plant the bomb in the sewers below the street
And the fact that for once they did something that normal people could justify doesn't take away from the fact that they also killed almost 1,000 innocent people over the years and mutilated thousands of others, forced thousands upon thousands of their fellow Basques to leave their region and emigrate to other parts of Spain (which has largely influenced the results of the elections there since the democracy was re-established), coerced thousands of businesses to pay a "revolutionary tax", kidnapped dozens of people and kept them in underground holes to then ask for a ransom or for political measures, etc.
Some *redacted* still defend them to date, and I will stop here because I don't want to say more.