{"id":572129,"date":"2010-05-20T13:44:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/05\/france-authorities-arrest-suspected-basque-separatist-leader.php"},"modified":"2010-05-20T13:44:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:44:42","slug":"france-authorities-arrest-suspected-basque-separatist-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/572129","title":{"rendered":"France authorities arrest suspected Basque separatist leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"left\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/topstoryphoto\/frontfrance.jpg\" alt=\"Photo source or description\" valign=\"top\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jurist.law.pitt.edu\/images\/s.gif\" width=\"5\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[JURIST] Four suspected members of armed Basque separatist group <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/3500728.stm\">ETA<\/a> [BBC backgrounder; JURIST <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/jurist_search.php?q=eta\">news archive<\/a>] were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mir.es\/DGRIS\/Notas_Prensa\/Ultimos_comunicados\/np052002.html\">arrested<\/a> [press release, in Spanish] Thursday in France, including suspected ETA leader Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe. The officers raided a residential block of the French city of Bayonne and arrested Sarobe along with two Spanish accomplices. Sarobe, a Spanish national, is alleged to be the military commander of the ETA and is the most wanted criminal in Spain, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mir.es\/\">Department of Interior<\/a> [official website, in Spanish]. One detained accomplice was identified as Arkaitz Aguirregabiria del Barrio, who is deemed to be ETA&#8217;s second in command and is wanted in France for the shooting of a police officer in March. ETA is listed as a banned terrorist group by the European Union and has been held responsible for more than 800 deaths over the past 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Spain and France have both made great strides recently in its attempts to limit ETA influence. In March, French prosecutors <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/03\/france-prosecutors-file-terrorism.php\">filed preliminary terrorism charges<\/a> [JURIST report] against a suspected former leader of the ETA, along with two other people who are believed to be senior members of the group. A judicial source said that the charges against the alleged ETA members stem from preparations to commit a terrorist act, including theft, forgery, and illegal arms charges. That same month, the Spanish National Court <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/03\/spain-court-sentences-former-basque.php\">sentenced<\/a> [JURIST report] former Basque separatist party leader Arnaldo Otegi to two years in prison for promoting terrorism in a speech he gave. In January, Spanish judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska <a href=\"http:\/\/jurist.org\/paperchase\/2010\/01\/spain-judge-finds-eta-attempted-to-kill.php\">ruled<\/a> [JURIST report] that ETA had tried three times to assassinate former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar in 2001 but had failed. Grande-Marlaska <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elpais.com\/articulo\/espana\/ETA\/intento\/derribar\/veces\/avion\/Aznar\/misil\/funciono\/elpepiesp\/20100113elpepinac_1\/Tes\">detailed the three assassination attempts<\/a> [<i>El Pais<\/i> report, in Spanish] as part of a description of the alleged crimes of ETA leader Pedro Maria Olano Zabala, who was arrested in the Basque region earlier that month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] Four suspected members of armed Basque separatist group ETA [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] were arrested [press release, in Spanish] Thursday in France, including suspected ETA leader Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe. The officers raided a residential block of the French city of Bayonne and arrested Sarobe along with two Spanish accomplices. Sarobe, a Spanish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}