'ETA suspects' CCTV shows firemen on holiday

20/03/2010 - 12:14:10
A Spanish firefighting force today said a video released by French officials investigating an alleged ETA shooting does not show the suspected gunmen, but rather a group of Catalan firefighters on holiday.

Catalonia’s firefighting force said that friends and relatives of six men on holiday in northern France had phoned to say they recognised their loved ones in the published images.

Paris police investigating the deadly shooting of a French officer released the surveillance camera shots showing the men in a supermarket. Police hoped they would lead to the suspects’ arrest.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero have blamed ETA for Tuesday’s killing outside Paris.