ETA’s last known chief has trial postponed

Josu Urrutikoetxea was due to stand trial in Paris (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

The last known chief of the militant Basque separatist group ETA has had the first of two back-to-back trials on terrorism charges postponed.

Josu Urrutikoetxea deems the charges “absurd” because of his role in ending a conflict that claimed hundreds of lives in Spain over half a century.