France: Believe that no one is entitled to destroy weapons of ETA – Chronicle Live

PARIS.- The French minister of the Interior, Bruno Le Roux, considered today that no one is entitled to destroy weapons of ETA, after militant pro-human rights will ensure that is what they were trying to do in the deposit of the terrorist group seized last night by police in the French Basque Country.

"In the matter of terrorism, all the evidence must come to justice. No one has the right to proclaim himself the destroyer of weapons and, eventually, of evidence," said the minister to the press during a trip to Vélizy, on the outskirts of Paris.

Le Roux was asked about the motivation of "destroy weapons that have been able to serve to commit serious acts, including attacks", noting that they will continue to work to seize all the weapons circulating illegally in the country.

Le Roux responded well to the president of honour in France of the League of Human Rights, Michel Tubiana, who told the evening Le Monde accused Paris and Madrid have interrupted an action to destroy part of the arsenal of ETA in the town in the French basque Louhossoa, near the border with Spain.

Five people were arrested last night in a farmhouse located on the outskirts of this town and seized a "significant" deposit of "weapons, explosives and ammunition", according to the French Ministry of the Interior, which considered the operation as a "a new blow to ETA".

Tubiana, for his part, said that the detainees in the operation, in which he himself had to participate, were not members of the band and intended to only disable the weapons into the disarmament process of ETA.

The activist of human rights, 64 years of age, assured that it was a "voluntary initiative of ETA to disarm themselves" and that the weapons were to be neutralized to "be subsequently handed over to the French authorities."

Tubiana indicated that the intervention of the police prevented it to develop this operation and accused him to Paris and Madrid "to transform a voluntary in a detention".

For the honorary president of the LDH, the governments of France and Spain have wanted to bring out a "communication operation", said that "the authorities were informed," and "could not ignore that it was an initiative of neutralization" of weapons.

Tubiana noted to Le Monde that have tried to coordinate with the French authorities the conditions for the dismantling of the arsenal, but who have not had positive responses.

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