French police today arrested two men suspected to be members of the Basque separatist organization ETA, said a source from the French police.
Men armed with pistols, were stopped near Ales, north of Montpelija, towards ETA bomb shelter that is placed under police surveillance, said the source. The arrests came after yesterday's arrest of a 29-year-old Španca near Poe, in the southwest of France, who suspected that a member of ETA.
ETA, whose full name Euskadi Ta Askatasuna in Basque means Basque Homeland and Freedom, was founded 50 years ago during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and is considered responsible for the deaths of more than 800 people. Security forces believe that the ETA has been weakened considerably since the last few years in France and Spain arrested several hundred of its members, but is still capable of fighting, said the British news agency.
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