Joxe Martín Sagardia Zaldua, a usurbildarra refugee in Usurbil, was killed by the ultra-right paramilitary group Spanish Basque Battalion in Biarritz. When he tried to start his car, the bomb he was placed underneath caused an explosion. I was 29 years old.

BVE is one of the denominations that the Spanish secret services used for the dirty war between 1975 and 1982, made up of extreme right-wing members. These groups killed at least 70 people in the Basque Country during this period.