Five drums of explosives, probably amounting to “old cacheThe Basque separatist organization ETA was found in late July in the mountain town of Béarn, Acous, the Pau prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.
These old explosives, discovered on July 29 by a farmer in a low stone wall bordering an isolated plot of land in this Aspe Valley town, were then “kidnappedBy the demining team, added Pau Cécile Gensac, confirming the information in Sud-Ouest newspaper.
According to Akus Mayor Danny Barrow, who visited the site on the evening of the discovery, it said “ammonium nitrateall had the weight written on them in Basquejerry caneach estimated to be about thirty kilograms.
this “likely old ETA cache“According to the prosecution, it is.”in an area where people leave their cars for hiking or summer grazing“sphere”regularly burned, which could have been much more serious with a poorly managed burn“, the mayor explained to AFP. The Prosecutor’s Office of Pau abandoned the investigation in favor of the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office.
ETA, which was formed in 1959 under Spain’s Franco dictatorship, is accused of killing at least 853 people during four decades of violence for the Basque Country’s independence. In 2018, the organization announced its self-dissolution after laying down its arms.
Source: Le Figaro
