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.The leader of armed Basque separatists ETA was caught on Sunday in northern France, the Spanish Interior Ministry said, in what was the latest blow to a group weakened by hundreds of arrests.
Ibon Gogeascoechea, on the run since 1997, was caught along with two other senior ETA rebels in a joint Spanish-French raid close to the small town of Cahan in Normandy, the ministry said. .
Much of the improvement has been due to better coordination between authorities in Spain and France, which ETA has long used as a hideout.
Security forces believe ETA, which wants independence for the Basque Country and has killed more than 850 people, has been severely weakened by hundreds of arrests in recent years.
But Batasuna has lost influence over the rebels since the collapse of peace talks with the Spanish government following a bomb attack on Madrid airport in 2006 which killed two people.
A leading member of the group’s political wing Batasuna last week called on ETA to continue its struggle by peaceful means.
The 54-year-old Gogeascoechea and his accomplices were caught in a car with false licence plates after arousing suspicion by renting a rural house using fake identities, the Interior Ministry said.
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ETA’s last fatal attack was the killing of two police officers on the island of Majorca in July