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'Donosti Commando'

France extradites suspected ETA member Maite Aranalde

Staff

08/26/2009

Aranalde was arrested in France in March 2005, and sentenced to six years imprisonment accused of supporting terrorist activities. She will be released under a bail of 12,000 euros, as the pro Amnesty Movement said on Wednesday.

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Alleged ETA member Maite Aranalde, accused of being part of a group (K-Zelatun talde) supporting the so-called Donosti Commando until its disbandment in 2002, was extradited to Spain on Tuesday by French authorities.

Her extradition was granted to the Spanish High Court for a crime of terrorism, the General Directorate of Spanish Police and Civil Guard reported.

Spanish police agents --attached to the International Police Cooperation Unit of the Judicial Police-- brought Aranalde, who allegedly escaped to France in 2002 when the Zelatun group was disbanded, to Spain.

Aranalde was born in Ibarra (Gipuzkoa) in September 1982. She was arrested in 2005 near Montpellier in a joint operation of the Spanish police and the French national anti-terrorist division in which Iñaki Arietaleaniz Tellería and Haymar Altuna Ijurco were arrested too.

She will be released under a bail of 12,000 euros imposed by judge Eloy Velasco at the Spanish High Court, as the pro Amnesty Movement said on Wednesday.

According to the same sources, Maite Aranalde will be paid an homage at her hometown, Ibarra, on Thursday, after being realeased.



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