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French court jails 14 over massive ETA arms cache
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 29 - 11 - 2006


A French court sentenced 14
members and supporters of the Basque separatist group ETA to
prison terms of up to 20 years on Wednesday for setting up a
massive arms and explosives cache nicknamed "Chernobyl", according to Reuters.
The 14 were charged over the 2002 discovery of the cache in
southwest France, which included 3,500 detonators and 67 crates
of ammunition and was considered one of the biggest ETA arms
dumps ever uncovered.
The special anti-terrorism court imposed the heaviest
sentence, of 20 years, on Asier Oyarzabal-Charpartegui, 34,
considered the logistics mastermind of the banned group.
The reading of the verdict was interrupted by shouts from
the accused, who called the seven judges "fascists" and
"terrorists" and broke into ETA songs.
Five sentences of 17 years were imposed on other members,
including 30 year-old Didier Aguerre, who is already serving a
separate 18-year prison sentence for stealing explosives.
Juan Angel Ochoantesana-Badiola, considered the ETA finance
chief and thought to be responsible for organising the group's
funding between 1990 and 2002 from Mexico, was sentenced to 13
years in prison.
Lesser sentences were imposed on Concepcion and Bernardo
Erbina and their three children, who were charged with
sheltering the cache.
ETA has killed 800 people in four decades of armed struggle
for independence for a Basque Country which would include the
Basque region of northern Spain and part of southwest France.
Paris has refused to participate in peace talks but the
Spanish government agreed in principle after ETA announced a
permanent ceasefire in March.


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