French anti-terrorist police arrested six suspected militants from the Basque separatist organisation ETA and seized bomb-making material at a hideout near Bordeaux. Officers raided the apartment in Bouscat, a small town outside Bordeaux, which had been under surveillance for a week. One man, identified by police as Angel Arrauzpide-Cruz, was snatched as he left the building on a bicycle to buy bread. Five more suspects, including a woman, were arrested when police rushed into the apartment. Two handguns, a homemade rocket-launcher and several detonators were seized. Arrauzpide-Cruz is considered by police to be the head of an ETA reservist cell, and the arrested gang were thought to be setting up an active military cell.
Well, that should make the neighbors a lot happier.
"Jean-Pierre, the man across the street has a rocket launcher."
"Don't pay any attention, cheri. We don't want to get involved." |