Bilbao Guggenheim assassination suspect arrested in UK
Man accused of plot to assassinate Spanish king at Guggenheim’s opening ceremony
A suspected terrorist wanted for plotting the assassination of the king of Spain when he opened Frank Gehry’s Bilbao Guggenheim in 1997 has been arrested in the UK.
Eneko Gogeaskoetxea, 44, was living in Cambridge under a false name, Cyril Macq, an extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.
He is accused of hiding ammunition for grenade launchers in window boxes at the Guggenheim two days before the opening ceremony, and of murdering a policeman who stopped him.
Gogeaskoetxea, an alleged member of Basque separatist group Eta, said he will fight extradition. He was remanded in custody.
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Readers' comments (6)
Sad news it maybe, but linking this to a news story of architectural worthy is tenuous at best ?
when i say sad, I mean in the context of him trying to assinate the king, not the fact that he has been arrested ...
"assassinate", i'll get my coat ...
These days it seems the only interesting stories are obtained by phone hacking, and BD seems not to have jumped on this bandwagon.
Now if he'd been trying to assassinate Frankie Boy ?????!!!!!!
he is far to good at squash for me & a really nice guy