Idoia López Riaño

Idoia López Riaño is a former ETA assassin nicknamed "La Tigresa" (The Tigress) for her "sexual prowess". She was jailed in the 1990s for a string of murders for the Basque terror group. Riaño eventually expressed remorse for her crimes, and was released in 2017 after 23 years in jail (one year served for each of her victims). Riaño was recruited to join ETA when she was 16 in 1980 by her boyfriend, José Ángel Aguirre Aguirre. At the time, this was the main Basque nationalist group and continued to become increasingly violent as Spanish authorities went after independent campaigners.

She became well known for using her beauty to lure police officers into her bed to gather information for ETA to aid in planning their raids.

Murders At the age of 20, La Tigresa carried out her first political murder on November 16, 1984. Along with two co-conspirators, Aguirre Aguirre, his fellow ETA officer Ramón Zapirain, the three travelled to Irun and accused French citizen Joseph Couchot of being a member of GAL. Shortly after, he was killed in a hail of bullets.

In 1986, she and other members of the ETA used machine guns to shoot up the vehicle of an army commander, Ricardo Saenz de Ynestrillas Martinez, killing him.