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The scourge of ETA

Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba took over the Ministry of Interior on April 11, 2006, replacing the position with Jose Antonio Alonso. Despite being in full truce with the terrorist group ETA, Rubalcaba was not willing to pay any price for it and on 3 October got to give her first major blow to the band, with the arrest of his number one, Mikel Antza, and 19 other activists . Antza was considered ETA's political leader, a position he held since 1993.

harassment of security forces (during the months leading to the appointment of Rubalcaba there were other arrests, mostly in France, the most prominent Zigor the Merodio, alleged head of the financial apparatus of the band), led to the truce at the end of the year . An ending that came as a result of the attacks at the airport Barajas, 30 December, which killed two people. The Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, was forced to end the peace process.

In June 2007, ETA official makes his return to arms and a few months later, on December 1, the terrorists killed two policemen, Raúl Centeno and Fernando Trapero. year 2008, the second term (first from the boot) as interior minister Rubalcaba, harassment of ETA increases in a exponential. On May 20, the Guardia Civil and the French Gendarmerie arrested in Bordeaux four members of the leadership of the organization, including his new number one, Francisco Javier López Peña, alias Thierry .

In mid September, organizations like Amnesty Gestoras Pro and Askatasuna are considered terrorists for their links with ETA . The band's response was swift, as the following weekend, three car bomb attacks against the headquarters of the Basque autonomous police Ondarroa, the new headquarters of the Caja Vital Vitoria and the Military Board of Santoña Virgen del Puerto (Cantabria), killing the latter attack the artillery brigade, Luis Conde de la Cruz.

But from the Ministry and security forces continued the fight and at the end of the year we get two major blows to the band in just a few days: the leadership of ETA strike twice in just three weeks . On November 17, police detain Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu, alias Txeroki , and on December 8 do the same with Aitzol Iriondo. In the latter also fall arrest two who were to accompany ETA: Eneko Zarrabeitia and Aitor Artetxe. Moreover, this same day they are arrested three ETA members in Irun and a few days later, four more. The balance of the end of 2008 was almost unbeatable in the fight against terrorism.

The next major blow to the band reach the end of August 2009, when a new joint operation of the French and English police led to the arrest in southern France three activists band, including Aitzol Etxaburu, one of the most sought . In addition, thirteen hideouts were located with plenty of explosive material about previous ETA attacks.

In 2010, 16 March, the murderous terrorist group, for the first time ever, a policeman, when chasing a command of ETA who had committed a car theft near Paris. The latest blow to ETA (so far), occurs on May 20, the day when French police came to decapitate the leadership of the band , in an operation that resulted in the arrest of military commander considered the band, Mike Carrera Sarobe, alias Ata ; of his "number two", Arkaitz Agirregabiria, and two other suspected ETA members.

With the arrest of Ata, considered one of the hard men of the band falls the sixth head of ETA in the last two years (ironically the day coincides with the arrest of Thierry in 2008). As we have said since then security forces have arrested the successive commanders of the band: Mike Garikoitz Aspiazu (November 2008), Aitzol Iriondo (December 2008), Jurdan Martitegi (April 2009), Ibon Gogeascoetxea ( March 2010) and Mike Carrera Sarobe (May 2010) .