Henri Parot (born 6 May 1958) is a member of the Basque

separatist Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seeking greate ...

group

ETA Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...

. He was born in

Algiers Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...

in 1958, the son of a Basque-French marriage that migrated to

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. When the

Algerian War The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...

ended and he was three years old, he returned to France and in the Basque-French city of

Bayonne Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine re ...

when he was 16 years old, where he learned the Basque language. He was arrested on April 2, 1990, in

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

after an exchange of gunfire with the Spanish police. In 1990, he was given a 4,797 year sentence for 26 murders and 166 attempted murders between 1978 and 1990. He was also convicted of involvement in the

1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing The Zaragoza barracks bombing was a car bomb attack by the Basque separatist organisation ETA, which occurred on 11 December 1987. A vehicle containing of ammonal was parked beside the main Guardia Civil barracks in the city of Zaragoza, ...

which killed eleven people, including five children.

References

* p. 62
Report of the Committee Against Torture

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General Assembly, 50th session.
"ETA killer sentenced to serve 30 years"
''The Age'', February 21, 2006.

''El Mundo'' Partido Popular, August 1, 2006.

''Chicago Sun-Times'', December 20, 1990. 1958 births Living people People of French Algeria ETA (separatist group) activists People from Bayonne Pieds-Noirs French people convicted of murder People convicted of murder by Spain {{BasqueCountry-bio-stub

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