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The historic leader of ETA José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoechea, aka "Josu Ternera", He was arrested Thursday in the French Alps and is in custody in a gendarmerie barracks.
Urrutikoetxea, that He lived in hiding since 2002, He was arrested in the department of Haute-Savoie, where he resided, as part of a joint operation of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI, the French police intelligence services) and the Spanish Civil Guard.
At the time of disappearing from public action, Josu Ternera was Member of the Basque Parliament by Euskal Herritarrok, a Basque alliance of independence. He fled after being summoned to testify in a case for the attack to the Civil Guard of Zaragoza, it was produced in 1987 and left 11 dead.
José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, aka "Josu Ternera", in March while he was deputy in the Basque Parliament, in 2002. (AFP)
In this situation, it was part of the negotiations with the Spanish Socialist Government during a truce in 2006, but was subsequently set aside so that members of the hardest line of the organization could take control.
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Despite this displacement and a seemingly serious illness, he again occupied a central place in the organization. And in May 2018 he was instructed to read the statement in which ETA announced its dissolution, seven years after the cessation of armed activity.
Urrutikoetxea will enter directly into a French prison to complete eight years of punishment that he inflicted in 2017 for his role as a member of the political apparatus of the terrorist group ETA, judicial sources told EFE.
The attack against the Civil Guard in Zaragoza, for which Urrutikoetxea Bengoechea was summoned in 2002, when he returned to hide. (EFE)
After being sentenced to the outcome of a trial in absentia where he was not present, "Josu Ternera" may plead in favor of repetition of the proceedings or accept the sentence imposed.
Therefore, he will not be presented after his arrest before an investigating judge, but he will go directly to jail, said the sources, who said that currently, Spain does not show up. there is no reason to ask for delivery.
During his long life in hiding, Josu Ternera he had "escaped just a few times" at the police headquarters, according to the prosecutor said in the latter trial.
In particular, the police operation organized against him on July 16, 2015 in a farm of the French Pyrenees in the department of Ariège, on the basis of information received from the forces of the order Spanish.
Although the day before, the investigators thought to identify him in this farm of the city of Durban-sur-Arize with his companion, Agnes Cerlo, and their daughter, the Corps of the special operations of the gendarmerie (GIGN) found that both women
José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoechea, in the Basque Parliament. (EFE)
The French forces also followed him on 7 October 2015 in Saint Denis, north of Paris, with his son Egoitz, also wanted for his membership in ETA and sentenced three times in absentia.
For half a century of armed actions, The ETA has caused more than 850 deaths.
With information from EFE and AFP
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