A suspected senior member of the armed Basque separatist movement ETA was arrested in south-west France on Thursday, one year after he escaped from police custody. Police said Ivon Fernandez Iradi was arrested as he was about to get into a car along with another man in the city of Bayonne. The two, who were armed, did not resist arrest. Fernandez Iradi had been sought by police since he escaped from custody in Bayonne on December 22, 2002 by squeezing out through his cell's skylight window.
| I think I'd make sure he eats custard pie every day while he's in jug this time... |
The suspect is accused of being a member of ETA's so-called Buruntza, or Donosti cell, and of seriously wounding a French police officer in November 2001. |