BILBAO, Spain — Black ribbons and white sheets of mourning adorned apartment balconies in the northern city of Ermua on Sunday as residents honored a young city councilman kidnapped and slain by the Basque separatist group ETA.
There was no known motive for targeting 29-year-old Miguel Angel Blanco other than the fact that he was a member of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's conservative Popular Party. He was kidnapped Thursday and fatally wounded Saturday after the government refused to give in to demands of the ETA, or Basque Homeland and Freedom.
