Barcelona - A group of Spanish firefighters was mistakenly depicted as suspected ETA terrorists in a police video broadcast in France this week, the government of the Catalan region said on Saturday.
The video, which was based on closed circuit television footage showing five men shopping, was issued after suspected ETA militants killed a policeman in a gunbattle south of Paris last Tuesday.
Catalan officials confirmed Saturday they had now asked the French authorities to stop the publication of the video on the internet.
The identity of the men shown in the video clip had been confirmed by their relatives. The firefighters had been on holiday south of Paris.
French officials had originally released the footage claiming that the men belonged to a terrorist group which had killed a police officer while attempting to rob an automobile shop.
Spanish investigators even said that one of the men was a top ETA leader, according to media reports, although this was not officially confirmed by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/314979,eta-terrorist-video-was-actually-holidaying-spanish-firemen.html.
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