Paris court transferred under house arrest a member of the ETA group

Jose Antonio Urruticoichea, a member of the Basque radical group ETA, detained in France last year, will be transferred to house arrest by a decision of the Paris Court of Appeal. This was reported on July 29 by France-Presse (AFP). According to the agency, at a hearing on that day, the chairman of the investigative chamber concluded that Urrutikoichea, who has been under arrest since his detention, could be placed under house arrest, provided that he must wear an electronic bracelet. Recall that in January 2020, a French court approved one of two requests for the extradition of a detained radical to Spain, in connection with the alleged role of Urrutikoichea in the terrorist attack in Zaragoza in 1987, when 11 people died, including six minors. According to the news agency, in May 2019, the Spanish Civil Guard, together with the French internal intelligence service, detained a member of the Basque terrorist group ETA, Jose Antonio Urruticoichea, better known as Josu Turner. He was arrested in the department of Haute-Savoy in eastern France in the city of Sallanche during an operation called Stolen Childhood. Recall that ETA is a Basque left-wing radical, nationalist organization that advocates the independence of the Basque Country. This region is located in northern Spain and southwestern France. The organization ceased to exist in 2018.