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A Paris judge ordered imprisonment of the alleged member of ETA Joseba Fernandez Aspurz ‘El Guindi’ who was arrested after the murder of the French gendarme Jean-Serge Nerin late March 16 in Dammarie-les-Lys, near Paris.

The judge had opened an investigation for his alleged participation in the crime. The arrested was currently wanted by Spain''s National Court

The deceased officer, Jean Serge Nérin of 52 years, died following a gun attack carried out by various suspected members of ETA. The shooting took place to the west of Paris in the area of Dammarie-lès-Lys, a town of 20,000 inhabitants, at 7.15pm, though news of the attack was not known until later into the evening.

The attack broke out when French agents went to detain a vehicle traveling at high speed. As police were carrying out a control of the vehicle, other cars appeared on the scene and it least one occupant began shooting at the the murdered agent.

ETA say ready to take steps for change

Basque rebels ETA on Sunday said they were ready to take steps for political change in the troubled Spanish region, but stopped short of calling for an end to the armed struggle.

ETA is "prepared to take the necessary steps," toward political change, but "we won''t stop until we achieve freedom," it said in a statement released through the newspaper Gara.

The comments come a month after one of the leading members of ETA''s banned political wing Batasuna, Rufino Etxeberria, said the rebels had to stop killing.

ETA "respects those that, in the last few months, are attempting to lay the foundation of a new dynamic for the Euskal Herria,", it said, in a clear reference to Etxeberria''s call for an end to the violence, and added it was willing to work for a
consensual agreement.