By Xinhua
Lisbon : Spain and France will create a permanent joint police investigation team to fight the Basque separatist group ETA, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has said.
Zapatero, who was attending the second European Union-Africa Summit, said Sunday that he and French President Nicolas Sarkozy agreed to establish the unit at a bilateral meeting on the summit’s sidelines and it would focus on preventing ETA attacks.
ETA suspects killed two Spanish policemen, who were on a joint mission with French police, in southern France’s Capbreton town on Dec 1. The French police captured two suspects last week, while a third is at large.
ETA has been fighting to establish an independent Basque nation covering parts of northeast Spain and southwest France.
It declared a cease-fire in March 2006, but carried out a bomb attack at Madrid’s Barajas Airport on Dec 30, killing two people.