On 11 July 1978, young Joseba Barandiaran Urkola was shot by the Spanish police. In the Sanfermines of 1978, on 8 July, in the fighting in the bullring in Pamplona, the young Germán Rodríguez was shot dead and eleven more people were injured. Demonstrations and strikes were opened in the Basque Country. Three days later, Barandiarán and the young man who was shot to death in a charge of the Spanish police during the demonstration of the murder of Germán Rodríguez in San Sebastián at the age of 19.