Spanish Police Make Further ETA Arrests
September 28th, 2010
Spanish police detained seven suspected members of a group close to the militant Basque separatist organization ETA, police said Tuesday.
The arrests, which were made overnight in the Basque region and neighbouring Navarre, constitute a new crackdown on ETA’s entourage despite a ceasefire declared by the group on September 5.
The detainees were suspected members of Askapena, the mouthpiece of ETA-related groups abroad.
They were held on charges of belonging to an armed group. Police searched several addresses.
The arrests followed those of nine alleged members of another ETA-related group, Ekin, in mid-September.
The Spanish government has vowed to maintain police pressure on ETA despite the ceasefire.
There were increasing hopes that the ceasefire could end a four-decade conflict that has claimed more than 800 lives. The government, however, refuses to discuss Basque independence and insists that ETA must definitively lay down arms. DPA
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