Veteran ETA leader arrested in France

 

Spanish authorities announced that a long-time chief of the Basque separatist militant group ETA  has been arrested in the French Alps.

Authorities had been looking for Jose Antonio Urruticoetxea Bengoetxea, known by the alias Josu Ternera, since 2002. The 69-year-old is accused of crimes against humanity.

Spanish authorities have accused Ternera of taking part in a 1987 bombing of a Civil Guard police barracks in the city of Zaragoza that killed 11 people and injured five children of Civil Guard officers.

In a statement, the ministry says that Spanish Civil Guard and French intelligence services arrested Ternera early on Thursday in Sallanches, a town of 16,000 in eastern France’s Alps region.

 

Via The Independent

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