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...Spanish Civil Guard, captured Francisco Javier Lopez Pena and three other alleged members of the separatist terror organization on May 20. According to reports in the Spanish media (which the Interior Ministry will neither confirm nor deny), police followed Jose Antonio Barandiaran, former mayor of the Basque town of Andoain, to a meeting he held with Lopez in France on May 18th. Two days later, gendarmes burst into a Bordeaux apartment and arrested Lopez and the others...
Barandiaran had apparently been under suspicion by Spanish counterterrorism forces for playing just such a role. During the time he was mayor of Andoain, separate ETA attacks killed two of the town's residents; Ainhoa Ozaeta, the masked woman who appeared in the video that announced the 2006 ceasefire and who was one of the others arrested in Bordeaux Tuesday night, was his deputy mayor. "They would have had plenty of reason to monitor him," says Gurruchaga. "Andoain is a place where ETA has a lot of allies. And whenever there was an attack or a robbery, you would hear...
...unacceptable repression. "We're at a great impasse," says Gorka Landáburu, a journalist who lost an eye, a thumb and three fingertips to an ETA letterbomb in May 2001. "It has become trench warfare of reprimands and insults." Nowhere is the desperation more palpable than in Andoain, a town on the Leitzaran River south of San Sebastián. Here Egunkaria ran its main office, now sealed after Spanish police impounded documents and computers last month. Less than two weeks before, municipal police chief and vocal ETA opponent Joseba Pagazaurtundua, 48, was gunned down by ETA while reading...
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