A suspected military leader of the Basque separatist group ETA has been arrested in France. Gorka Palacios Alday was held in a dawn raid in the small village of Lons, near Pau in south-west France. French anti-terrorism officers also detained another three suspected ETA members, and seized false identity papers and weapons during the raid. ETA has killed more than 800 people in its campaign for a separate state since the late 1960s. French police described Palacios, 29, as the armed group’s “number one” following the recapture last week of Ibon Fernandez Iradi, ETA’s suspected military chief. Full Story
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