Tuesday November 24, 2009
Spain arrests 34 from ETA youth group - minister
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested 34 members of Segi, an outlawed youth group linked to the Basque guerrilla organisation ETA, the government said on Tuesday.
The operation was carried out across the Basque Country and Navarra, northern Spain, and aimed at depriving ETA of a key source of recruitment and cutting pro-independence street violence, Interior Minister Alfredo Rubalcaba told reporters.
Leaders of Segi, which was declared a terrorist group by the Supreme Court in 2007, were among those arrested, the officials said.
ETA was founded 50 years ago during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and has killed more than 800 people in its campaign for an independent Basque Country.
Security forces believe it has been substantially weakened by hundreds of arrests in recent years in France and Spain but that it is still capable of fighting.
Earlier on Tuesday, a Spanish court official put the number of arrested at 36.
Spanish police were not immediately available to comment.
(Reporting by Itziar Reinlien; Writing by Tracy Rucinski; Editing by David Stamp and Victoria Main)
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