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France24 - Basque militants `caught' on video actually Catalans on holiday

AFP - Five people identified as ETA suspects in a surveillance video released in France and Spain are in fact firemen from Spain's Catalonia region who were on holiday, Spanish media said Saturday.

France and Spain on Friday released images from closed-circuit television cameras of five people Spanish police said were suspected members of the Basque separatist organisation involved in the killing of a French policeman near Paris this week.

But the government in the northeastern region of Catalonia said the five were in fact Catalan firemen who were on a climbing holiday in France, Spanish national radio reported.

The Catalan fire service was alerted by the men themselves, who had received calls from the family and friends who had recognised them from the video, the Europa Press news agency reported.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Mar 20th, 2010 at 02:43:58 PM EST
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quelle comédie.

The march of civilizations is a series of defenses that man has put up against the dread of pure existence.
by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 07:48:37 AM EST
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As seen on TV.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 11:09:55 AM EST
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It's funny but a police officer was shot dead by the Basque commando... Scary for the Catalan firemen.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Mar 21st, 2010 at 03:43:01 PM EST
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