Two executives of ETA, the alleged murderer of a police officer … – The Obs

Paris (AFP) – Two executives of ETA, one of which is suspected of killing a police officer in the Paris region in 2010, have been indicted by the French courts and imprisoned in the night from Saturday to Sunday umpteenth blow to the Basque separatist organization.

Xabier Goyenechea Irragori, 35, and Joseba Inaki Reta, 56, were among ETA members “most wanted” by the Spanish authorities.

These two Spanish nationals were arrested in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in a house Ossès (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), following information received from a few hours earlier by the Security Bureau Interior (ISB), a source familiar with the matter.

Goyenechea Irragori is also believed to be one of the two authors of the shots during the shootout that claimed the lives March 16 2010 to sergeant Jean-Serge Nérin, 52, last person killed by ETA who had to give the following year in the armed struggle.

Inaki Reta Goyenechea Irragori was, in Madrid, responsible for “technical logistic department” of the Basque organization, responsible for the deaths of at least 829 people in the name of his struggle for independence of the Basque Country and Navarre.

They were charged with multiple counts, including conspiracy, possession and transportation of weapons, false document custody, all in relation with a terrorist enterprise.

Also indicted a couple ‘hosts and homeowner Ossès which housed the two ETA members have themselves been left free under judicial supervision.

Goyenechea Irragori is one of six suspected members of a commando operation Basque separatist who are to appear in the fall before the special sitting of Paris for the murder of sergeant Nérin.

Investigators are convinced that it is one of the two who opened fire on those policemen who had caught them on a local road of Villiers-en-Biere, Seine-et-Marne, after a car theft from a dealer

. – The issue of prisoners –

The other alleged gunman, now in custody in France, is considered a “hard” ETA Mikel Carrera Sarobe, alias “Ata”, former number one of the military, has already been condemned several times, including once in 2013 to life imprisonment for the murder of two young Spanish Civil Guards in Capbreton in the Landes in 2007.

The ETA has been weakened by the repeated blows of French and Spanish authorities that require dissolution unconditionally. In May, the French police discovered a weapons cache of ETA in Biarritz, in a stately villa belonging to an architect.

But if she gave up the armed struggle in October 2011, the ETA calls for negotiations before any dissolution, including the settlement of the question of its prisoners.

Relatives of detainees also claim the approximation of some 460 Basques detained in France and Spain. Among them, 352 are incarcerated at 500 km or more from their place of origin, according to the Association of relatives of detainees Etxerat.

A Spanish judge has opened an investigation into the management of the ETA for “crimes against humanity”, following the complaint of associations of victims of murders, assassinations and kidnappings by ETA after 2004, including that of the sergeant Nérin.

The organization has committed its first attack, the murder of a police officer in 1968. She sued them after the advent of democracy in Spain. According to a university study in 2014, among its victims include 206 civil guards, 149 police officers, 87 officers and NCOs, 30 political figures.