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| Spain arrests 9 ETA-linked suspects |
| 2010-09-15 |
| [Iran Press] Spanish police have jugged nine people suspected of having links to the Basque separatist group ETA days after the armed group declared a unilateral ceasefire. In a predawn raid by Civil Guards forces, five men and four women were detained in the Basque country and Navarra Province in northern Spain. Police sources said those jugged are accused of heading Ekin, the body that "prepares and sends out the directives of ETA." Ekin was ruled as "part of the heart" of ETA by Spain's National Court in 2007. ETA, itself, has been blacklisted as a terrorist group by the European Union and the US. The arrests come eight days after ETA declared a ceasefire, vowing to stop its decades-long campaign of violence for an independent homeland in Spain. Only hours after the declaration, however, the Spanish government dismissed the announcement as "insufficient" and demanded ETA to renounce violence "completely forever." |
| Posted by:Fred |