French Police officer Killed slain in shootout with ETA suspects

The 52 year-old officer was part of a patrol which halted a speeding car near a garage in Dammarie-les-Lys, east of Paris at around 7.15 p.m. (1815 GMT).

French Police officer Killed slain in shootout with ETA suspects

A French police officer was killed late Tuesday in a shootout near Paris with suspected members of the Basque militant group ETA, Spanish police said overnight in Madrid.

The 52 year-old officer was part of a patrol which halted a speeding car near a garage in Dammarie-les-Lys, east of Paris at around 7.15 p.m. (1815 GMT).

Three ETA suspects immediately opened fire when they were confronted by the slain officer and a second police officer.

‘We think it was a commando group of between four and six people including a woman,’ the source said.

Two of the suspects were able to flee the scene but a third was arrested, authorities said.

The incident came weeks after the arrest of senior ETA leader Ibon Gogeascoechea in France last month, the latest in a series of blows to the armed separatist group



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