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Facing terror charges, ETA's last boss apologizes for deaths

by Angela Charlton & Aritz Parra
| October 19, 2020 3:06 AM

PARIS (AP) — A Paris appeals court postponed Monday the first of two back-to-back terrorism trials this week against the last-known chief of ETA, the now-extinct Basque separatist militant group, charges that the defendant deems “absurd” because of his role in ending a conflict that claimed some 850 lives and terrorized Spain for half a century.

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