Madrid, España.- The Spanish Interior Ministry confirmed today that the two ETA suspects arrested Tuesday in France were responsible for “technical and logistical” device created by the armed group after the dismantling of its military structure and charge the sealing of the hideouts and weapons caches.
The arrests were advanced on Tuesday night for the area addressed by Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, but so far not confirmed officially the identity of those arrested. Xabier Goienetxea, 35, and Iñaki Reta Frutos, 56
“The two men occupied a major role in the terrorist group ETA, because they exercised the ultimate responsibility of the department technical and logistics of the terrorist group, “the ministry said in a statement.
The head of this unit was Goienetxea, who was leaning in the work of management and coordination by Reta de Frutos. According to Interior, were two of the “most wanted” by the law enforcement agencies of Spain and France have “extensive experience in activities in favor of the terrorist organization” ETA.
Goienetxea, in hiding since 2008 , he had allegedly engaged in “violent and sabotage actions.” According to Interior, it could be involved in the theft of six cars at a dealership in France in 2010, “which ended with the murder” of a French agent. Reta Frutos had been convicted of “collaboration and belonging to a terrorist or terrorist group” and was on the run since 2010.
In addition to the two suspected members of the Basque separatist group, were arrested two French citizens who “gave Accommodation in a house owned “in the town of Osses, in southwestern France.
Fernandez Diaz described the operation against ETA of” important “and recalled that the Spanish government is working for the” dissolution absolute “armed group, after it announced in 2011 the definitive cessation of violence.
” With these operations we show that we do not need intermediaries and with the Civil Guard, police and collaboration French all we need us to take care of all the material that may have ETA, “said the minister, who said that ETA is” a corpse that just needs to write his death certificate, which will be dissolved “.
The police operation caused some reactions in the region of Basque Country, in northern Spain. The president of the regional government, the nationalist Josu Erkoreka, ETA said Tuesday that “no delay will conviente more steps to be taken” and pointed to the need for “immediate and effective disarmament” to “conclude its final dissolution.”
From the Basque independence left, Amaiur spokesman group in the Congress of Deputies, Xabier Mikel Errekondo rejected and said the arrests show “little or no interest” of the Spanish government to ETA “leave it was his orderly array “.
In February 2014, international mediators announced a first step in the disarmament of the band that turned out to be a fiasco. A video broadcast by the BBC showed how two hooded ETA members exhibited before them arms and ammunition, but the total disarmament took place.
From the 60s until 2010, the armed group killed more 800 people in their quest for independence of the Basque Country from the rest of Spain.
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