Tue, 18 Jan 2011
Pamplona, Spain - Spanish police detained at least 11 suspected supporters of the armed Basque separatist group ETA overnight, police sources said Tuesday.
The operation was the first large-scale one against ETA's entourage since the group consolidated its four-month ceasefire, making it permanent, verifiable and general on January 10.
Two of the detainees were held in the Basque region and nine in neighboring Navarre. Police seized computer materials.
Most of the suspects were linked with radical organizations such as Ekin, which is believed to transmit ETA's instructions to related groups, Askatasuna, which defends jailed ETA activists, or ETA's political wing Batasuna.
Charges against the suspects included maintaining a pro-ETA website and participating in acts of street violence.
The Spanish government finds ETA's ceasefire insufficient and insists on an unconditional military surrender by the group, which has killed about 850 people since 1968 in its campaign for a sovereign Basque state.
Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's government vowed to maintain a hard line on ETA. Tuesday's swoop followed the arrest of two ETA suspects in Spain and France on January 11.
ETA is listed as a terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/362829,eta-supporters-summary.html.
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