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66: 629:, was personally concerned about the matter and ordered the arrest without further cause of all the Spaniards who were in the capital and the withholding of their passports; that was how Cubillo recognized his attackers. The police chief came to the conclusion that they were Spaniards because "If they have not insulted him while stabbing him it is because they were not Algerians." Cubillo, once he returned to Madrid, would blame the operation on 302: 170: 25: 530:, in the session of 14 February 1978, with a vote against and at the proposal of all parliamentary groups, described the agreement of the Tripoli meeting as "interference in the internal affairs of Spain." Parties from across the parliamentary arc protested the interference and requested the planning of the military defense of the Canary Islands. 648:
concealed the attack on its protégé for several days, although the perpetrators of the attack were arrested on 5 April and sentenced to death by Boumédiène, but pardoned seven years later. These in turn declared after their release that they worked for José Luis Espinosa, whose whereabouts were
594:(FRAP), who had previously offered to support Cubillo, hired mercenaries Juan Antonio Alfonso González and José Luis Cortés to carry out the assassination. Both moved to Algiers on the morning of 5 April 1978. The two men were waiting in front of the 110:, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Knowledge. 897: 811:
Expresa la más enérgica condena del Congreso de los Diputados ante el Consejo de Ministros de la OUA, por su resolución sobre las Islas Canarias, que implica una injerencia en los asuntos internos de España.
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That Committee was in the specific interests of Algeria, which was thereby intended to divert attention from its political and economic problems. Two days after the meeting,
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with several thousand dead, followed by the invasion of the Canary Islands by Algerian submarines. In the novel Cubillo dies, serving as a pretext for the invasion.
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of Cubillo's residence on Peking Avenue in that city. Upon arrival in front of the elevator, he was stabbed twice by surprise, receiving serious injuries to the
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when they were surprised by the abrupt arrival of an Algerian official, so they were forced to flee. Antonio Cubillo had to use crutches after the attack.
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to infiltrate the armed organization, although he would have been rejected. Even so, he would have remained in the city planning the murder.
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unknown. However, on 22 October 1988, Espinosa was captured by the Spanish police forces and transferred to the provisional prison of
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withdrew their support for the Committee, also denying that the Canary Islands were African territory, as intended at the meeting.
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by agents of the Spanish police services. The assassination attempt followed a secret meeting in February of that year in
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In 2009 Juan Antonio Alfonso apologized to Cubillo in a face-to-face meeting for a documentary.
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on his own, arriving in a timely manner because street traffic was light due to an important
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In 2003, the Audencia Nacional approved compensation of €150,253 for the terrorist action.
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and present a resolution favorable to the independence of the archipelago before the
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to obtain information from the MPAIAC. With this information he would have gone to
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Movement for the Independence and Self-determination of the Canaries Archipelago
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Between 13 and 18 February 1978, a so-called OAU Liberation Committee met in
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Failed assassination attempt on Antonio Cubillo by agents of Spanish police
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Si no le han insultado mientras le apuñalaban es que no eran argelinos
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to withdraw the support Cubillo had obtained from the Tripoli regime.
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On 5 April 1978, a failed attempt was made to assassinate
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According to Cubillo in later interviews, he went to the
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of a train loaded with plutonium and a massacre at the
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