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24th July 2010
Edition: 1071


Police arrest fugitive ETA suspect at Lisbon airport
20/3/2010

Portuguese police have arrested a suspected fugitive member of the Basque separatist group ETA at Lisbon airport as he prepared to fly to Venezuela, Portuguese and Spanish authorities said.

While Portuguese authorities made no official announcement of the arrest last Thursday at Portela Airport, a Judiciary Police official told the Lusa News Agency the suspect, Andoni Zengotitabengoa, is in custody and being questioned.

In Madrid, the Spanish Interior Ministry confirmed the arrest and said it had been informed by Lisbon that Zengotitabengoa was apprehended with a false Mexican passport and an airline ticket for Caracas.

Portuguese police had been searching for Zengotitabengoa and a fugitive partner since last month after they discovered hundreds of kilograms of explosives and bomb making material at a rented house in the central town of Obidos.

The arrest came a few days after Madrid and Caracas got into a diplomatic row over Spanish allegations that the Venezuelan government appeared to have links of cooperation with both ETA and Colombia’s FARC guerrillas.

TPN/Lusa

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