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Nov. 8, 2006 / 10:14 PM

France sends jailed ETA leader to Spain

MADRID, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- France turned over to Spain a leading member of the Basque separatist group ETA who had been imprisoned in France for seven years, El Pais reported.

Jose Javier Arizcuren Ruiz was accused of killing 15 people. In all, some 850 deaths have been attributed to ETA violence in the last three decades.

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ETA has, however, declared a cease fire.

Ruiz has also been implicated in a 1985 plot to assassinate Spain's King Juan Carlos.

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