France arrests ETA suspect: Spanish official
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French police arrested a member of the armed Basque separatist movement ETA wanted by Spain, a Spanish security source said Thursday.
Joseba Segurola Mayoz was arrested in central France on a Spanish extradition warrant, the Spanish official told AFP by telephone.
"The gendarmes detained him in the Bourgogne region. There was a warrant to extradite him to Spain," said the source, who asked not to be named.
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Spanish news agencies said Segurola was aged 57 or 58 and had already served jail time in France. They said he was wanted by Spain for a shooting attack there in 1991.
ETA is blamed for the deaths of 829 people in a four-decade campaign of shootings and bombings for an independent homeland in northern Spain and southern France.
Many of its leaders have been arrested over recent years.
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In October 2011 it declared a "definitive end to armed activity" but it has not formally disarmed nor disbanded as the Spanish and French governments demand.