They are 199 prisoners, 19 of whom are in French prisons, and the vast majority in Spain. Euskadi ta Askatasuna (“Basque Country’s Freedom” in the Basque Country) in the 1980s և 1990s’s actions on both sides of the Pyrenees, causing 829 deaths and hundreds of injuries. The continued detention of these independence activists, some of whom have been imprisoned for more than thirty years, is a source of tension within Basque society.
After the International Peace Conference known as Aiet in San Sebastian in October 2011, the climate gradually calmed down on both sides of the Pyrenees. At this conference, ETA promised to end the armed struggle, which it postponed in 2014, and in 2017, presenting to the mayor of Bayonne the location of weapons and explosives depots, a document containing a total of 3.5 tons. Jean-Rene Etchegara during a gathering of 20,000 people.
Geographical approximation four years after the dissolution of ETA…
Source: Le Figaro
