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Miguel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina alias Txeroki ("Cherokee") (born 6 July 1973) is an ETA member.[4] He headed the military/commando unit of the group until his arrest in France on 16 November 2008.
Although he gained prominence in the military section of ETA, he rose to the highest level of ETA's leadership following the May 2008 arrest of Francisco Javier López Peña, also in France. As the military chief, he was believed to have orchestrated, ordered and planned ETA bomb attacks.[3]
He was rumoured to have been the person responsible for breaking a truce with the Spanish government when he authorized the Barajas bombing on 30 December 2006. Spanish authorities have also suspected Rubina personally killed two Guardia Civil police officers as they were doing undercover intelligence work in December 2007. Before his arrest, he was wanted on a total of 22 criminal charges in Spain, including the murder of Judge Jose Maria Lidon in November 2001.[1]
Imprisonededit
The French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie announced that he had been arrested overnight on 16 November 2008, at 3:30, in Cauterets following a joint investigation by French and Spanish police. He was arrested along with Leire López Zurutuza, a woman suspected of being an ETA member, by the French anti-terrorism police.[5]
His arrest was the result of police investigative work following the arrest of two other ETA suspects who said he told them that he had killed the two officers in Capbreton on 1 December 2007.[3]
He appeared before a Paris judge where he was formally charged in connection with the killing of the two undercover Spanish police officers.[6]
Following his arrest, he was also indicted in a Spanish court for his alleged role in the Barajas bombing.[7]
Political impactedit
Sections of the media asked whether his arrest could debilitate ETA's violent activity. Alternatively, the arrest could have also led to an increase in ETA activity. Some saw it merely as the biggest blow to ETA in the last half-year since Lopez Peña's arrest.[3] Some comments saw the arrest as marking "a further blow for hardline members of ETA."[8]
International reactionsedit
The Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero said that his arrest would cause "great damage" to ETA but also warned that ETA was still "capable of carrying out attacks."[9] Spain was put on a full security alert to guard against retaliation for Rubina's arrest.[10]
^ ab"FACTBOX - Five facts about top ETA suspect Garikoitz Aspiazu". Reuters. 17 November 2008. from the original on 20 August 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
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