A police handout photo shows Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, known by his alias "Txeroki
A police handout photo shows Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, known by his alias "Txeroki". The suspected military leader of Basque separatist rebel group ETA has been arrested in south western France, the French interior ministry said November 17, 2008, the biggest blow to the organisation in months. Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, known by his alias "Txeroki" or "Cherokee", was arrested in France's mountainous Pyrenean region, near the Spanish border, said the interior ministry statement, which misspelled his surname as Asiazu. The ministry said Aspiazu was suspected of having killed two Spanish civil guard police in December 2007. REUTERS/HO/Spanish Interior Ministry (SPAIN)