French police arrest 17, find heavy weapons in anti-ETA swoop
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French police arrested 17 people and discovered a cache of heavy weapons during raids targeting suspected members of Spain's armed Basque separatist group ETA based in southwestern France, officials said.
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A vast police operation in France and Spain netted at least 18 suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA and large stocks of weapons, authorities said.
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Police have arrested the suspected political leader of the Basque guerrilla group ETA, detained 20 other people and seized weapons in a swoop on the outlawed group in France and Spain, officials say.
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Spanish police have arrested five suspected ETA members just days after 21 people were seized including the Basque separatist group&#39;s suspected leader, officials say.
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MADRID, Oct 4  - Spain on Monday expressed further satisfaction at the arrests in France of 17 suspected Basque extremists, saying that the neighbouring country had made hunting down members of the underground ETA group a top priority.
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At least 16 other people suspected of being ETA members were also arrested. The police uncovered several stockpiles of weapons containing rocket launchers, assault rifles, machine guns and explosives, and ...
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Twelve people including one of the founders of the Basque separatists ETA have been arrested in pre-dawn raids in Spain and France, in a crackdown on illegal financing of the armed group, police in both countries said.
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French police have carried out dawn raids to arrest 13 suspected Basque separatists for their involvement in an attack last year on a luxury hotel in southern France. Some 200 gendarmes took part in Monday's arrests, the French news agency AFP reported. Seven of the suspects are French and six are Spanish, officials said. Investigators suspect last year's attack was carried out by the Basque separatist group Eta or a French group sympathizing with Eta, a judicial source told Reuters news agency. Eta has waged a violent campaign since the 1960s for an independent state in north Spain and south-west France and called off a 15-month truce in June.
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Police arrested four suspected members  of the armed Basque separatist group ETA in south-west France  on Saturday, believed to be linked to the deadly Madrid airport  bomb in December, Spain&#39;s Interior Ministry said.
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French officials say they found two portable anti-aircraft missiles among weapons seized in weekend raids against suspected members of Spain&#39;s Basque separatist group, ETA.
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Spanish police said on Monday they had  arrested 14 people, thought to be Moroccans, in a wide-ranging  operation against Islamic militants.
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BORDEAUX, France -- Police arrested the suspected political leader of the Basque guerrilla group ETA, detained 20 others, and seized explosives, grenades, and other weapons in a series of raids yesterday, officials said.
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French police arrested a leader of the Basque separatist organization ETA in a Paris train station Thursday night, said Spanish police on Friday.
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The alleged political leader of the armed Basque separatist group ETA and his partner were arrested Sunday along with 19 other accused ETA members during a police sweep in southwestern France, Spanish authorities said.
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French authorities have arrested 17 suspected Basque separatist guerrillas and seized multiple stockpiles of weapons in raids Sunday.
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20 people, including two leaders, were arrested near Pau in southwestern France in a vast French-Spanish police operation. Explosives, grenades, machine guns, grenade launchers, detonators, bullets and other weapons have been excluded during operation.
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French police have found two Russian-made surface-to-air missiles among huge arms caches uncovered during a sweep against Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA in southwestern France, officials said on Tuesday.