Spanish Supreme Court Judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska ordered the imprisonment of the 11 alleged members of the pro-independence youth movement SEGI who were arrested on Tuesday in the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre, according to judicial sources.

The magistrate took this decision after they testified during the hole day and after he sent to prison 11 of the 13 arrested over terrorist integration or collaboration.

Marlaska accuses the eleven suspected members of Segi of terrorist integration crime, according to the same sources that also added that the detainees will be taken to Soto Real and Alcala Meco prisons.

Marlaska will interrogate other ten detainees on Saturday, to finish with the questioning of the 36 arrested on Tuesday.

36 arrested

Spanish National Police and Civil Guard made 36 arrests at dawn on Tuesday morning in various areas all around the Basque Country and Navarre, as part of a macro-operation against the illegal organization Segi, as antiterrorist sources confirmed.

The operation, which began as dawn broke on Tuesday 24th November, was directed by Spanish Supreme Court Judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

This is the largest scale operation of its kind in recent years. So far, arrests have been made in Otxarkoaga (Bilbao), Lekeitio, Zamudio, Galdakao, Iurreta and Sestao in Bizkaia; Donostia-San Sebastian, Amezketa, Azpeitia and Idiazabal in Gipuzkoa; Vitoria-Gasteiz in Alava and Barañain and Zizur Mayor in Navarra.

According to the same sources, the arrests came about as a result of documentation seized during the arrest of suspected ETA member Ekaitz Sirvent, arrest last April in Paris.

Segi is the youth section of the Basque pro-independence left-wing, succeeding previously banned organizations Jarrai and Haika. It was declared a terrorist organization in January 2007, concluding a court case begun by Supreme Court Judge Baltasar Garzon in 2001.

Two events banned

On the other hand, Grande-Marlaska banned the celebration of two events in Getxo (Bizkaia) on Friday and Saturday. The aim of these celebrations was to pay homage to three alleged ETA members.