ETA leader Ibon Gogeascoechea arrested in northern France

Published: 9:57AM GMT twenty-eight February 2010

ETA personality Ibon Gogeascoechea Photo: AP

On the run given 1997, Gogeascoechea was held along with dual alternative comparison ETA rebels in a corner Spanish-French raid nearby the small locale of Cahan in Normandy, the method said.

He was longed for for a tract to conflict the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao during a revisit by Spain"s King Juan Carlos.

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Security forces hold ETA, that wants autonomy for the Basque Country and has killed some-more than 850 people, has been exceedingly enervated by hundreds of arrests in new years.

Much of the alleviation has been due to improved coordination in between authorities in Spain and France, that ETA has prolonged used as a hideout.

A heading part of of the group"s domestic wing Batasuna last week called on ETA to go on the onslaught by pacific means.

But Batasuna has lost change over the rebels given the fall of assent talks with the Spanish supervision following a explosve conflict on Madrid airfield in 2006 that killed dual people.

The 54-year-old Gogeascoechea and his accomplices were held in a car with feign looseness plates after arousing guess by renting a farming residence utilizing feign identities, the Interior Ministry said.

ETA"s last deadly conflict was the murdering of dual military officers on the island of Majorca in July.