Right-wing group responsibility for fire;
NZPA-Reuter Madrid An ultra Right-wing group has claimed responsibility for setting fire to two British coaches chartered by Scottish soccer fans. A Spanish newspaper also said yesterday that the group had threatened an “anti-Brit-ish summer” in retaliation for the events in the Falkland Islands. According to “El Pais” a spokesman for a group called the Triple A said: “We shall go on-placing devices not only in British coaches,
but also in private cars iniresponse to the Malvinas: (Falklands) and Gibraltar.” , Spain has a long-standing’ claim to the British colony of; Gibraltar and Spanish Right-; ists have given vocal support* to Argentina oyer the, Falk-: : lands conflict; j Another Right-wing group,. Reconquista Espanola (Span-' ish Reconquest), also! claimed responsibility for ; burning the coaches in; the'; coastal town' of' Torremoli-. nos. No-one was injured in the fires. t
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