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ETA terrorist group surrenders weapons in France

ETA terrorist group surrenders weapons in France

The Basque radical-left-wing organisation handed over 120 guns and three tonnes of explosives in a day that was planned with a degree of ceremony

David Guidilla / SUR

Wednesday, 12 April 2017, 15:51

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ETA officially turned itself into an unarmed group last Saturday when it put a large part of the weapons it still held at the disposal of authorities in France, where the arms had been hidden. The symbolic act ended five decades of terrorism during which some 850 people died.

Although security forces have still to thoroughly examine the stashes, there are believed to be 120 firearms, three tonnes of explosives, thousands of detonators and a lot of ammunition.

In an attempt to give the process a degree of ceremony, ETA didnt use familiar hooded spokespeople, but instead entrusted a French-Basque intermediary to hand over a dossier on the arms location in front of the mayor of the French city of Bayonne, local officials and church representatives including the Archbishop of Bologna.

Eight hiding places were declared, although Spanish and French authorities said it was probably impossible to know, even for ETA, how many more weapons were still undeclared elsewhere. The group is expected to disband in the summer.

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