Mikel Irastorza, “the current leader” of the basque separatist movement, ETA, was arrested Saturday in the south of France in collaboration with the civil guard, announced the ministry of the Interior Spanish.
Irastorza “stayed on the run from justice” and “in the present, would occupy the highest responsibilities” within ETA, reports in a press release, in which precise the operation is still open and “not ruled out more arrests”.
Was arrested “inside a housing” of the French town of Ascain, in the Department of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, during an operation directed against the structure of the direction of ETA,” explains the ministry.
agents also arrested the couple that was staying, according to French sources.
ETA was founded in 1959 and is considered responsible for the death of over 800 people in more than 40 years of armed struggle for the independence of the Basque Country and Navarre.
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five years Ago the group has renounced violence but refuses to surrender their weapons and disband, as required by the Spanish government and the French.
on The 12th of October, France and Spain announced the dismantling of a hideout with weapons of ETA in Carlepont, 120 km north of Paris.
In a press release dated 18 October, ETA blamed Spain and France for not wanting to “find reasonable solutions” for peace in the Basque Country.
Their operational capacity would be quite low, with the vast majority of its members in prison, and only twenty of them refugees, according to the anti-terror forces to Spanish and French.
Source: AFP
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