ETA leader captured in France

A Basque terror leader, wanted for seven killings and a kidnapping, has been captured in south-east France.

A Basque terror leader, wanted for seven killings and a kidnapping, has been captured in south-east France.

Felix Ignacio Esparza Luri, ETA’s logistics chief, was caught in a joint French-Spanish police operation outside the city of Dax, said Spanish Interior Minister Angel Acebes.

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