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Alleged ETA member arrested in Paris

AP

04/11/2009

Auzmendi was captured Friday by French and Spanish police as he got off a bullet train that had arrived from Bordeaux at Montparnasse station.

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Spain''s Interior Ministry says Ekaitz Sirvent Auzmendi, suspected of being a master forger for Basque separatist group ETA, has been arrested in Paris while carrying a Magnum revolver.

The ministry said in a statement Auzmendi was captured Friday by French and Spanish police as he got off a bullet train that had arrived from Bordeaux at Montparnasse station.

Police seized "a great deal of computer equipment" including a laptop, several hard discs and USB pen drives and many fake French and Spanish identity document.

The ministry said Auzmendi had been on the run since 2002.

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