Paris (Reuters)-a former military leader of the Basque separatist group ETA, known as "Txeroki" or "Cherokee" was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in France, on Wednesday, on charges of kidnapping and bomb-making.
Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, Miguel de was arrested in 2008 in the area of the Pyrenees mountains near the border with Spain and linked to the abduction of Spayol couples and a child in that area in the previous year, Reuters reports.
At the time, he was the most sought-after people in Spain for his role in the 2006 bomb attacks against Madrid airport that killed two people.
The Court declared the defendants guilty of France has about 500 kilograms of explosives as well as kidnapping the couple and their son were Spain, who was four years old.
Nine other defendants in the trial were sentenced to between eight and 20 years in prison.
Last month, the former leader of ETA's military expressed "regret" over the fall victim in the violence of the guerrilla group when they tried to set up an independent State in the territories of France and Spain.
Convey remorse that Txeroki as he appeared with nine other members of ETA suspects in courts of Paris.
A court in Spain 2011 convicting in absentia sentence of 375 years in prison Txeroki as 20 assassination attempt.
ETA, listed as a terrorist organization by the u.s. and the European Union, accused of being responsible for the deaths of more than 800 people over four decades of armed struggle to establish an independent State in the Basque region of Northern Spain and southern France.
On October 20, the armed separatist group, declares "permanent cessation of activity is right" after bomb attacks and shootings for more than 40 years.
The Declaration of the end of the separatist groups it highlights great lengths last in Western Europe who was accused of being responsible for the death of hundreds of people.
Madrid refused to conduct a dialogue with the group, and stressed that they must disperse themselves unilaterally without strings attached.
Spain and France are working closely to quell ETA, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people in their 42 years of guerrilla war to establish an independent State in the Basque areas of Northern Spain and southwestern France.
ETA, which some time ago commemorating half a century of their birth, was formed on July 31, 1959 by a group of left-wing nationalist students opposed to the right-wing dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, which suppressed the Basque language.
Security forces estimate that the separatist group was weakened as a result of the arrest of the leaders of their high and has long been relatively inactive. (M014)
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