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Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested a former leader of the armed Basque separatist group ETA for his alleged role in a kidnapping..
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Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested a former leader of the armed Basque separatist group ETA for his alleged role in a kidnapping..
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A ministry statement Wednesday said Ignacio Miguel Gracia Arregui, known as Inaki de Renteria, was arrested in the northern city of Irun for ordering the 1996 kidnapping of prison officer Jose Antonio Ortega Lara.
Gracia Arregui was arrested in France in 2000 and served eight years in jail there before being handed over to Spain.
He was jailed in Spain until April 2010.
Spain has long suspected him of ordering a 1995 assassination attempt against Spain's King Juan Carlos.
ETA has killed more than 825 people since 1968. It declared a ceasefire last September but the government insists it must lay down arms.
