From Spiegel Online:
On Monday morning, French police arrested the man thought to be head of operations for the Basque separatist group ETA. He has long favored violence as a tool to gain Basque independence. But his successors may be even more savage.
They were asleep in a house near Cauterets, a ski area in the French part of the Basque region. They had only rented the domicile last Thursday, but already the authorities had tracked them down. At 3:30 a.m., a specialist commando broke down the door and stormed in, arresting the pair: the 35-year-old head of operations for the Basque terrorist group ETA Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina (aka Txeroki), and Leire Lopez Zurutuza, 31, who were wanted for having participated in a number of attacks.
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On Monday morning, French police arrested the man thought to be head of operations for the Basque separatist group ETA. He has long favored violence as a tool to gain Basque independence. But his successors may be even more savage.
They were asleep in a house near Cauterets, a ski area in the French part of the Basque region. They had only rented the domicile last Thursday, but already the authorities had tracked them down. At 3:30 a.m., a specialist commando broke down the door and stormed in, arresting the pair: the 35-year-old head of operations for the Basque terrorist group ETA Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina (aka Txeroki), and Leire Lopez Zurutuza, 31, who were wanted for having participated in a number of attacks.
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