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The two plainsclothes civil guard officers were in [[w:Capbreton|Capbreton]], France, taking part in a joint surveillance operation with French police against ETA, which traditionally uses France as a base for its attacks in Spain. The civil guards were shot as they emerged from a place where they regularly have breakfast. Raul Centeno died and Fernando Trapero was seriously injured. Three ETA suspects fled in a car, later leaving it to commandeer a second car. They held a French woman and her son, but quickly released them.
The two plainsclothes civil guard officers were in [[w:Capbreton|Capbreton]], France, taking part in a joint surveillance operation with French police against ETA, which traditionally uses France as a base for its attacks in Spain. The civil guards were shot as they emerged from a place where they regularly have breakfast. Raul Centeno died and Fernando Trapero was seriously injured. Three ETA suspects fled in a car, later leaving it to commandeer a second car. They held a French woman and her son, but quickly released them.


It is the first fatality blamed on ETA in nearly a year. The separatist group claimed responsibility for a December 30, 2006, car bomb at a Madrid airport that killed two men and destroyed a parking garage.
It is the first fatality blamed on ETA in nearly a year. The separatist group claimed responsibility for a December 30, 2006, [[Explosion hits Madrid Airport's terminal 4|car bomb at a Madrid airport]] that killed two men and destroyed a parking garage.

This incident comes a day after mora than 50 basques (journalists, writers, ecologists, teachers, lawyers and other profesionals) were imprisoned by the Spanish police accused of support ETA's independestist ideas.




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Revision as of 16:27, 1 December 2007

Saturday, December 1, 2007

ETA
Background

Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, or ETA, is a Basque nationalist paramilitary organization active in Spain and France. The organization's goal is sovereignty for Basque Country and it uses both political and violent means to further its cause.

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A Spanish civil guard has been killed and another badly wounded after being shot by suspected members of the Basque separatist group ETA in south-western France.

The two plainsclothes civil guard officers were in Capbreton, France, taking part in a joint surveillance operation with French police against ETA, which traditionally uses France as a base for its attacks in Spain. The civil guards were shot as they emerged from a place where they regularly have breakfast. Raul Centeno died and Fernando Trapero was seriously injured. Three ETA suspects fled in a car, later leaving it to commandeer a second car. They held a French woman and her son, but quickly released them.

It is the first fatality blamed on ETA in nearly a year. The separatist group claimed responsibility for a December 30, 2006, car bomb at a Madrid airport that killed two men and destroyed a parking garage.

This incident comes a day after mora than 50 basques (journalists, writers, ecologists, teachers, lawyers and other profesionals) were imprisoned by the Spanish police accused of support ETA's independestist ideas.



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