El Correo, 18 March 2010.

ETA now a French problem too

Published on 18 March 2010 at 12:56
El Correo, 18 March 2010.

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"This killing changes everything", El Correocomments, two days after a French police officer was gunned down near Paris by members of ETA, the Basque terrorist group. The Basque-region daily points out that the operation, the first of its kind in France, "poses a real problem for ETA" because the fight against the separatist movement has now become "a priority for the French state." El Correo notes that when two gendarmes were killed by a French-based Basque nationalist group in 1988, French authorities "completely dismantled the group (known as Iparetarrrak) in the space of a few months". The paper expects the French to show "more determination" in the fight against ETA and demands "effective action" from the government.

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