 PARIS — French and Spanish police have arrested a key member of the Basque terrorist organisation ETA. In a joint operation, anti-terrorist officers detained Jon Koldobika Garmendia MartÃÂnez, alias 'Txuria', in the town of Cibourne in the French Basque region. He is accused of renting a flat in 2004 to house various members of ETA's so-called 'Comando Amaiur'. They were Haimar Altuna, Maite Aranalde and Iker Olabarrieta. Other members of the same cell were arrested in San Sebastián in March this year. They were Iker Olabarrieta, Igor González and Carmelo Lauzirika. Since that operation 33-yar-old Garmendia has been on the run in France. In August 1998, he was condemned to six months in jail for refusing to do military service. |