Eta linked to highway bombings in Spain
Two bombs exploded on highways in central Spain this evening after a warning call from the armed Basque group Eta, police said.
The bombs came a day after Spanish politicians expressed hope that the Irish Republican Army’s announcement that it was laying down arms might encourage ETA to do likewise.
A police spokesman in the Castilla La Mancha regional capital of Toledo had no details but said he did not believe there were any injuries. The warning call was phoned to the daily newspaper Gara.
Meanwhile, police in northern France today released a father and son who had been held for questioning about last year’s deadly Madrid train bombings, regional police said.
The two – a Moroccan man and his son, who has French nationality – had been taken into custody on Tuesday at their home in the northern town of Wervicq, near the Belgian border, police and judicial officials said.
They were held in nearby Lille by agents of the DST counterterrorism service, then released with no charges filed, the regional prefecture in Lille said.
The men’s names emerged in the major investigation by Spanish police probing the 2004 train bombings in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,500.
