Isaías Carrasco

Isaías Carrasco (died March 7 2008 age 42) was a Basque politician, affiliated with the PSE. He was shot dead when he left his house in Tolosa de Mondragón on March 7 2008, two days ahead of general elections in Spain, in what is believed to be an attack by ETA.

The electoral campaign was suspended on the part of the politicians, in response to the murder of councilman Carrasco. He was shot in the presence of his wife and daughter. According to sources of the investigation, a disguised gunman approached him by the back and shot him three times; one in the nape of the neck and two in the chest. The emergency services transferred him to the hospital in very serious condition. Shortly after the 14:00 local time (13:00 UTC) the Basque Department of Interior confirmed his death.

According to some eyewitnesses, the killer was tall, with a dark complexion in a leather jacket. The security forces are looking for a gray vehicle in which the assassin and an accomplice would have fled.

Carrasco placed sixth in the electoral lists of the PSE-EE in the municipal elections of 2007. Four socialist legislators were chosen and the municipal government of Mondragón was handed over to Basque Nationalistic Action (ANV, whose activities were suspended in February 2008 by judge Balthasar Garzón for a supposed violation of the 2003 Parties Law). Carrasco had resigned to run; prior to the campaign he worked in a public company and did not hold any public office.