Basque Gets 92 Years in Deaths of 4 Officers
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MADRID — A court has sentenced a Basque separatist to 92 years in prison for participating in an attack that left four Spanish policemen dead and one wounded.
The court said Jesus Maria Zabarta Arregui was a member of the squad of the Basque separatist organization ETA that attacked a police patrol car near Renteria, a town in the northern Basque province of Guipuzcoa, in September 1982.
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