A car bomb exploded in Madrid this morning in calle de la Ribera del Loira, in front of the offices of Ferrovial Agromán. No-one was injured in the blast as a warning was given and police were able to cordon off the area. A phone call to the Red Cross at 07:37 informed them that a bomb had been placed …
ETA arms cache discovered in Ordizia
The Security Forces in Guipúzcoa have begun inspecting an arms cache found last night in a wooded area near Ordizia. The cache was discovered by someone out walking in the area. The area was cordoned off as the police waited for dawn before beginning their inspection. The cache includes small arms, ammunition and a grenade launcher.
ETA bomb attack in Bilbao
ETA continues its campaign of violence, detonating a bomb this morning in Bilbao. The device, containing about 100 kilos of explosives, was in a van which was left outside the headquarters of the Basque Public Broadcasting Company (EITB). The same area also houses the offices of Antena 3, Onda Cero, El Mundo and Expansion. Nearby are the Department of Finance …
Four alleged ETA members detained
Two men and two women, alleged members of an ETA information unit, have been detained in San Sebastian and Pasaia in Guipúzchoa. It is believed that the four members were responsible for gathering and preparing information on potential ETA targets. The detentions occurred early this morning and the police have been conducting searches of several houses in San Sebastian and …
Police search homes of detained ETA members
The current police operation against ETA has continued with the searching of houses belonging to three of the detainees. Following the arrest of six suspected ETA members, including Aitzol Iriondo, the successor to Garikoitz Aspiazu ‘Txeroki’ as military chief of the organisation, police have been searching homes belonging to the three alleged ETA members detained in Irún. The homes of …
Six ETA members arrested
The man thought to be the new military chief of the Basque separatist organisation ETA, Aitzol Iriondo ‘Gurbitz’, has been detained in France along with two other members of ETA. The arrests followed a joint investigation by the Spanish and French authorities and were carried out in the town of Bagnéres de Bigorre in the Pyrenees. The other two detainees …
ETA kills businessman in Guipuzchoa
Ignacio Uría Mendizábal, a 70 year old businessman from Azpeitia, Guipuzcoa, has died from gunshot wounds, the latest victim of ETA violence. He had been shot in the head and the chest. Ignacio Uría was one of the owners of the company Altuna y Uría, which was involved in work on the AVE high-speed rail network in the Basque Country …
De Juana Chaos detained in Belfast
José Ignacio de Juana Chaos has been detained in Belfast, where he had taken up residence since his release from Prison in Spain last August. De Juana Chaos was the subject of an international ‘search and detain’ warrant issued by the Spanish Court after he failed to appear in court to answer charges of ‘glorifying terrorism’.
ETA military chief detained in France
The suspected head of ETA’s military operations has been arrested in the Pyrenean town of Cauternets in southern France. Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, alias ‘Txeroki’, is suspected of the murder of two Spanish Guardia Civil officers in the French town of Capbreton in 2007 and is also thought to have been involved in the assassination of magistrate José María Lidón …
Search and detain
ETA activist José Ignacio de Juana Chaos, who was released from prison earlier this year after serving a sentence for a series of murders, is now the subject of a ‘search and detain’ warrant following his non-appearance in Madrid for his latest Court hearing. Letters were sent to the three addresses given by de Juana Chaos after his release, but …