Crime/Incidents news & information for Basque Country

A MOUNTAINEER from the Basque Country who crashed his helicopter in the wilds of Tajikistan at an altitude of 7,500 metres has been found – alive.

A BRITISH court has agreed to the body of a Spaniard to be exhumed to see whether he was a victim of organ-trafficking before he died.

BASQUE separatist terrorists ETA is due to make a 'key announcement' on Friday in Cambo-les-Bains, south-western France, and speculation has been rife as to whether the organisation planned to break up – but...

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.

A FORMER member of the Basque terrorist cell ETA who fled to the UK has been jailed for six years after he was extradited to Spain in May 2017.

AN INFANT given a free sample of the baby milk withdrawn from the shelves in France has died from salmonella poisoning – the only known case in Spain so far.

STORM Bruno has already claimed two lives in the Basque Country after a man and woman, believed to be a couple, were swept out to sea off the coast of Deba (Guipúzcoa province).

FAMOUS bullfighter Iván Fandiño has been gored to death in a ring near Pau, southern France.

A YOUNG family of four has died in a fire which destroyed their block of flats in Bilbao's Zorroza neighbourhood, which has left at least 25 others needing medical attention.

BASQUE terrorist group ETA's disarmament has officially started in what the French ministry of defence calls a 'positive move' and Spain considers 'theatrics for media attention'.

A FORMER member of the Basque terrorist cell ETA has been arrested in México after 30 years in hiding, just a month before his crimes would have expired under the statute of limitations.

AN HISTORIC member of one of ETA's most bloodthirsty cells, the Madrid Commando, has won her battle for prison leave after 18 months of court cases.