Alejandro Zobaran Arriola – Eta military head detained in France

According to the report, the most wanted chief of armed Basque separatist group Eta has been detained in northern France.

Spanish national radio reported that Alejandro Zobaran Arriola was amongst the four Eta believes arrested in an operation managed by French police near the Belgian border.  Mr. Arriola was expressed as the group's "new armed head". Spanish newspaper El Pais reported he was captured in Willencourt, west of the city of Arras. The suspects were captured late on Thursday in a house where weapons and essential documents were also recovered.

Eta's skirmishing for sovereignty for the Basque area has charged at least 800 lives since 1968 but it called a close down to armed harasses last year.

Mr. Arriola was famous as "Xarla" is Eta's sixth military head to be arrested since Francisco Javier Lopez Pena was also detained in May 2008. Eta has been coming under heavy pressure to put down its weapons and, in January this year, declared that it would finish "unpleasant armed actions".

But Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero rejected the statement, saying he liked that the group to be entirely separated.

Spanish officials think the campaign against Eta has break down its equipped capability, with numerous arrests including a reasonable numbers of top leaders made in alliance with forces in other different countries.