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30th December 2004, 07:03
ETA violence has cost Spain 8 bln euros - report (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28720506.htm)
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28 Dec 2004 11:02:16 GMT
Source: Reuters
MADRID, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Violence and threats by Basque separatist group ETA have cost Spain almost 8 billion euros ($11 billion) in the last decade, a report published in El Pais newspaper said on Tuesday.
The study, commissioned by a High Court judge, calculated the cost of extra security, insurance, compensation for victims and jailing of convicted ETA members.
This added up to 4.4 billion euros between 1994 and 2003, it estimated.
It then added the cost of closing the nuclear power plant of Lemoniz, which was never finished because of a series of attacks by ETA culminating in the shooting of an engineer working on the project.
The report was commissioned by judge Baltasar Garzon who is trying to establish the civil liability of the radical Basque political party Batasuna, accused of being ETA's political wing and banned for not condemning ETA violence.
El Pais said it had obtained a copy of the report.
High Court officials were not available to comment.
ETA has killed more than 800 people since 1968 in a bombing and shooting campaign for Basque independence from Spain and France. It has been weakened this year by a police crackdown both sides of the border and the arrest of more than 100 ETA suspects, including its top leadership.
ETA has not killed for 18 months, but in December it set off five small bombs on main roads out of Madrid which paralysed the capital on a major holiday weekend. It is also blamed for a bomb attack last week on a Civil Guard barracks near Zaragoza.
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28 Dec 2004 11:02:16 GMT
Source: Reuters
MADRID, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Violence and threats by Basque separatist group ETA have cost Spain almost 8 billion euros ($11 billion) in the last decade, a report published in El Pais newspaper said on Tuesday.
The study, commissioned by a High Court judge, calculated the cost of extra security, insurance, compensation for victims and jailing of convicted ETA members.
This added up to 4.4 billion euros between 1994 and 2003, it estimated.
It then added the cost of closing the nuclear power plant of Lemoniz, which was never finished because of a series of attacks by ETA culminating in the shooting of an engineer working on the project.
The report was commissioned by judge Baltasar Garzon who is trying to establish the civil liability of the radical Basque political party Batasuna, accused of being ETA's political wing and banned for not condemning ETA violence.
El Pais said it had obtained a copy of the report.
High Court officials were not available to comment.
ETA has killed more than 800 people since 1968 in a bombing and shooting campaign for Basque independence from Spain and France. It has been weakened this year by a police crackdown both sides of the border and the arrest of more than 100 ETA suspects, including its top leadership.
ETA has not killed for 18 months, but in December it set off five small bombs on main roads out of Madrid which paralysed the capital on a major holiday weekend. It is also blamed for a bomb attack last week on a Civil Guard barracks near Zaragoza.