21 held in Eta raids

Police in France and Spain arrested 21 suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group Eta today in a series of raids that authorities described as a blow to the organisation’s logistics unit.

Twenty of the suspects were captured in French towns including Saint Pierre d’Irubek, Briscous, Ayherre and Hendaye, Spain’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. One was arrested in the northern Spanish city of Burgos.