 ETA campaigns for independent Basque homeland |
Police in Mexico have arrested nine people with suspected links to armed Basque separatist group ETA, Spain's Interior Minister Angel Acebes has said. Speaking at a news conference in Madrid, Mr Acebes said six of the suspects were Spaniards and the other three were Mexican.
As part of the same operation carried out jointly by Mexican and Spanish police, another person was detained in the Basque region in northern Spain, Mr Acebes added.
He said that several of those detained had been responsible for channelling funds to and from ETA and had also helped exiled members of the group to hide their identity.
Accounts worth 900,000 Mexican pesos ($87,000) had been frozen as part of the year-long investigation, Mr Acebes said.
The ministry said in a statement that most of those detained fled from Europe after involvement in ETA's bombing and assassination campaign in the last 20 years.
ETA has been blamed for killing more than 800 people in its long campaign for an independent Basque homeland.
Both the European Union and the United States have blacklisted ETA as a terrorist organisation.
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