Politics

French policeman Jean Serge Nerin is so far the last ETA-related fatality, killed near Paris in March 2010 in a shoot out -- the first French security officer to be killed by ETA. He was shot dead when his patrol intercepted a group who had stolen cars from a car showroom last Tuesday.

The previous ETA-related killings were in July 2009 when a bomb claimed by the group killed two police officers on the island of Majorca. The origin of the explosion was a limpet bomb attached to the underneath of the Nissan patrol car that was being driven by the two deceased civil guards at the time of the explosion.

One month before, June 2009, ETA killed Spanish policeman Eduardo Puelles García, when a limpet bomb attached to the underneath of his car exploded in Arrigorriaga.

In 2008, ETA killed Isaias Carrasco, former councillor for the Socialist Party in Mondragón; Spanish policeman Juan Manuel Piñuel after an attack against a police station; Spanish Army officer Luis Conde de la Cruz after a car bomb in Santoña; and Ignacio Uria, an owner of the construction company Altuna y Uria, building a stretch of the high-speed train named by ETA as a target, shot dead in Azpeitia.

In 2007, six months after ETA''s latest cease fire, the armed group killed in France Raul Centeno and Fernando Trapero, two Guardia Civil policemen working undercover in France.

ETA declared a permanent ceasefire in March 2006, but Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero called off the peace process later that year after the group detonated a car bomb at Madrid airport that killed two Ecuadorian citizens, Carlos Alonso Palate and Diego Armando Estacio.