by: Nicole Griffin
Today a man has been charged in France with criminal association with terrorist enterprise by a French judge who filed preliminary ant-terrorist charges. The charges has stemmed from alleged terrorist head ringleader, Mikel Garikeitz as one who has been involved with killing two Spanish officers in the French Atlantic town of Capbreton . Mikel is accused of being the leader of a group known as ETA, which according to Princeton University’s WordNet, is a terrorist organization established in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party in France. The charge against Garikeitz is strictly preliminary which allows French investigators to probe into more evidence that may lead to a major trial. Mikel’s attempts for separation from the national Basque party has become indeed deadly in the sense that the ETA’s actions has become a major problem for France since it has affected the lives of many outside of the incident that killed the officers, but others were killed as well over a span of many years. The ETA’s acts of terrorism proves that the acts are being carried out in various nations not just in the middle east, terrorism displays the diabolical avenues extremist travel on just to prove to others that the socially acceptable norms are not the avenues that lead to their answer of “true” justice.
Source
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/21/france.eta.ap/index.html
2 comments:
Yes, the differences in terrorist ideals and locations is extreme, but it just goes to show you that this occurs in every part of the country, not just media-infested Iraq and Afghanistan. This also tells us that we should focus global attention on terrorism, and just not where the media brain-washes us.
This is very interesting to me because i just left spain this summer and i heard alot about ETA in northern spain. My close friend is from there and she explains that ETA does effect alot of innocent people, and the currently she hears alot about different bombs going on. Unfortunatley this has been going on for quite some time and there has been so far no resolution.
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