French police arrest ETA military commander and accomplice

French police Sunday arrested two members of the Basque separatist group ETA, including Oroitz Gurruchaga Gogorza, who is the group’s military leader, Spain’s interior ministry said.

Gurruchaga and “his deputy” Xabier Aramburu were arrested in the southwestern French village of Cauna while travelling in a vehicle with fake numberplates in a joint operation by French and Spanish police, it said.

ETA is blamed for 829 killings during a four-decade armed campaign for an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southern France.