Madrid, Jan 12 (EFE) .- Sixteen people were arrested today by the Guardia Civil in Spain related to the group of lawyers and responsible for the economic apparatus of the organization in charge of prisoner support of ETA .
The arrests in the Basque Country and Navarra (north), in addition to Madrid, where three of the detainees who were to take charge of the defense today of 35 defendants were related to organizations close to ETA, sources told Efe counterterrorism, and confirmed by the Ministry of Interior.
The arrests are primarily related pathways funding organization in charge of supporting prisoners ETA and are continued operation of January 2014, when they were arrested eight members of liaison groups with the group of ETA prisoners, (EPKK), including the lawyer Arantza Zulueta.
are underway out several records, including several taverns herriko (bars related to Basque independence left) of Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa and, at least at a downtown law firm in Bilbao.
The operation, first of year against the vicinity of the terrorist group is led by the judge of the Audiencia Nacional Eloy Velasco and coincides with the start in Madrid the trial against the leadership of Batasuna formations, PCTV and ANV, in which 35 people are prosecuted for integration in terrorist group.
The sources explained that the conclusion of that trial in Madrid is the reason that at least one of the arrests have been made in the capital.
These are the year first arrests in connection with the terrorist group after 2014 could clear the arrest of 16 people allegedly linked to ETA, four of them outside Spain. EFE
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