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| Basque ETA says killed Spanish councilor in March |
| 2008-04-02 |
| The Basque separatist group ETA said on Tuesday it shot dead a former Socialist councilor just before last month's election, confirming widely held suspicions that the armed group was responsible. In a statement published in the Basque newspaper Gara, ETA said it had killed Isaias Carrasco outside his house in the northern town of Mondragon on March 7, two days before an election won by the incumbent Socialists. He was shot five times at point-blank range in front of his wife and young daughter. Gara also quoted ETA as saying it also carried out four bombings in the region in the run-up to the poll. In a blow to the group, the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office said it had frozen 4.8 million Swiss francs ($4.77 million) in assets in two cases connected to ETA, the Swiss local news agency SDA reported. The funds were frozen after an unnamed bank made a report to the Swiss police money-laundering unit and the Prosecutor's Office launched two investigations in 2006, spokeswoman Jeannette Balmer told SDA. |
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