Arrested in Spain a member of ETA claimed by France – Terra Peru

Arrested in Spain a member of ETA claimed by France – Terra Peru

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December 19, 2014 • 15:23

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The Spanish police arrested Friday in the Basque Country, in the north, the alleged ETA member Juan Arriarán Carlos Ibarra, wanted by France since 2005 for “terrorism”, the ministry of Interior

“Agents of the Provincial Information Brigade San Sebastián National Police have arrested at 19 today.: 15 hours in Bergara (Guipúzcoa), the escaped ETA member Juan Carlos Arriarán Ibarra, alias ‘Giuseppe’ “he said in a statement.

About Arriarán, born in the Basque town of Bergara in 1949, It weighed “a European warrant for arrest and surrender (EAW) dated December 12, 2005 issued by the French authorities for terrorism,” he added

Fled to France in 1982., after the dismantling in Spain of a group of armed Basque separatist organization, Arriarán had been expelled by the French authorities to Panama two years later, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.

The conservative Spanish daily ABC had stated in 1996 that Juan Carlos Arriarán Ibarra and two other suspected ETA members, Eugenio Barrutiabengoa Zabarte and Miguel Angel Aldana Barrena, accused of a total of 12 murders, lived “open face” in Venezuela.

Shortly after Arriarán was sentenced in absentia by a Paris court to three years in prison, says the Spanish Ministry without specifying the reason for which he was tried.

“Subsequently, in December 2005, the French national claim is transformed into a EAW, which has led to his arrest today, “he said.

Considered responsible for the deaths of 829 people in four decades of armed struggle for independence of the Basque Country and Navarre, ETA has been greatly weakened in recent years by police beatings.

On October 20, 2011, the armed organization, which since 2009 has committed no attack in Spain, announced a definitive end to violence.

In February 2014 claimed to have initiated a process of unilateral disarmament is not recognized by Madrid, whose government refuses to negotiate with ETA, demanding a solution without conditions and continuing with arrests