ETA to announce dissolution on May 5
Thursday, April 19, 2018 @ 12:39 PM
BASQUE terrorist organisation ETA says it will formally disband and will announce this in public in Bayonne, southern France, over the first weekend in May.
The separatists, who have not carried out any armed attacks since summer 2009 and whose last major bomb blast was on December 30, 2006 at Madrid airport T4 car park, says it will be calling a press conference on Friday with the para-political association Bake Bidea in Iparralde, south-western France, when it will 'announce an event of international importance' in Bayonne on May 5.
ETA says various institutions, including the Basque regional government, unions and political parties will be invited to the Bayonne announcement.
Friday's press conference will be presided by Bake Bidea, part of the Social Forum and the International Contact Group (GIC) with Raymond Kendall at the helm
Although the exact terminology used by ETA to explain the Bayonne conference is not clear, it strongly points towards the cell's having decided to dissolve.
The Basque Country regional government says it is not going to 'get carried away with speculation' but that once ETA reveals its decision, it will 'evaluate it accordingly'.
Regional television channel ETB announced last night (Wednesday) that ETA appeared to be planning to break up on May 5.
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