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Basque Militant Group Kills Spanish GuardsmanMADRID, Dec. 1 — One Spanish civil guardsman was killed and another seriously wounded in southern France today, the Spanish authorities said, accusing the Basque militant group ETA of its first slaying in almost a year. Spanish news reports said the two guardsmen, Raúl Centeno and Fernanco Trapero, were leaving a restaurant in the French seaside resort of Capbreton and walking to their car when two men and a woman shot them at close range. Mr. Centeno died immediately; Mr. Trapero was hospitalized. The attackers fled by car to the nearby town of Mont de Marsan, France, where they briefly kidnapped a woman and stole her car, according to the newspaper El País. In a televised speech, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero of Spain said the civil guardsmen were taking part in a joint French-Spanish operation against ETA when they were attacked. He swore to catch the attackers and said the government would continue to pursue terrorists and those who support them. ETA, which has killed more than 800 people over four decades, is considered a terrorist group by the United States and the European Union. Forty years of black terrorist history have not been enough for them to gauge the strength of Spanish society, he said. Hundreds of deaths and attacks have been insufficient to make them understand they will never achieve anything through violence. Interior Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie of France said the guards had been tracking ETA members who were in France seeking refuge or preparing operations, according to The Associated Press. The French and Spanish police often work together in the ethnic Basque areas that straddle the border between Spain and France. Mr. Zapateros government embarked on risky negotiations with ETA after it called a permanent cease-fire in March 2006, but talks stalled and the group broke its truce in December that year with a huge car bomb that killed two men at a Madrid airport. The group formally called off the cease-fire in June and has since carried out a series of small or bungled attacks that did not kill anybody until today. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationRocket Fired From Gaza Lands Near Israeli School...Disney teen star Miley Cyrus: half-naked photos were meant to be artsy... Skeptics Doubt U.S. Evidence on Iran Action in Iraq... Italy’s Premier Seeks to Bolster Support... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Basque Militant Group Kills Spanish Guardsman |
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