French police on alert in Basque borderland

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Series Details 12.3.04
Publication Date 12/03/2004
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After terrorist train bombings in Madrid on 11 March 2004, French frontier police were put on heightened alert along the Franco-Spanish border in the Basque country. It is suspected that the Basque separatist organisation ETA is responsible for the atrocities, and South-west France has long been used by ETA as a strategic base.

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