Spain says leading ETA member arrested in France
MADRID — French police arrested the leader of the debilitated Basque militant group ETA, Spain’s Interior Ministry said Saturday.
Spanish authorities identified Mikel Irastorza as “currently the maximum leader” of ETA. In a statement, they said Irastorza and two more people were arrested Saturday morning by French police, working in tandem with Spanish agents, in the French town of Ascain near the Spanish border.
Spanish police said Irastorza, who had been in hiding since 2008, became ETA’s leading member a year ago.
A Spanish man and a French woman were arrested on suspicion that they had given shelter to Irastorza in a house they owned.