Batallón Vasco Español
The Batallón Vasco Español (Spanish for Basque Spanish Battalion) was a Spanish Basque right-wing paramilitary group active from 1975 to 1981, primarily in French Basque Country.
The BVE employed violence mainly against Basque separatist groups.
With the change of government in Madrid, from the post-Francoist center-right Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) to the center-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in 1982, the BVE vanished but a similar group, the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (GAL) took its place.
Killings attributed to the BVE
December 21, 1978: Killing of José Miguel Beñarán, "Argala" (ETA militant who participated to the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973), in Anglet. Carlos Gastón, member of the BVE was accused for this crime. Former OAS member Jean Pierre Cherid took part in it.
June 25, 1979: Killing of Enrique Gomez Alvarez (alleged ETA militant) in Bayonne.
June 28, 1979: Killing of F. Martín Eizaguirre and Aurelio Fernández (alleged GRAPO militants) in Paris (France).