Ex-ETA chief Ternera has been taken in France

According to him, have wanted the Spanish authorities for 17 years: Josu Ternera, Ex-leader of the Basque underground organization ETA. Now the radical Separatist has been taken in France.

in 2002, he was on the run: José Antonio Urruticoetxea Bengoetxea, better known under his Alias Josu Ternera. In the early hours of the morning, the former ETA leader Spanish and French investigators now went into the net.

According to the Spanish interior Ministry Ternera was made in the Eastern French Alps. He had hidden himself at last in Sallanches, a 16,000-inhabitant town near Chamonix.

According to him, the Spanish authorities, on the basis of 17 years: Ex-ETA chief Ternera.

for many Years the political leader of the ETA

Ternera was regarded for many years as a political head of the underground organization. After he had repeatedly served time in prison, he was from 1998 to 2002, a Deputy in the Basque regional Parliament.

When it became known that the Spanish authorities investigate him for involvement in a command action in the year 1987, showed up Ternera. The Spanish authorities accuse him to be 32 years ago to the attack on a barracks in Zaragoza have been involved. Here, at the time, eleven people were killed.

The now 68-Year-old was one of the most wanted fugitive members of ETA.

More than 800 people Dead since 1968

in Total, the ETA is said to have murdered during their four-decade-long fight for an independent Basque country for more than 800 people.

in 2011, explained the Organisation of their armed struggle to be finished in 2017, she resigned, according to its own representation of all the weapons. In may of last year, ETA declared its final resolution.