Manhunt after ETA Member Underway in France

World | December 23, 2002, Monday // 00:00

An extensive manhunt is under way in southern France after a suspected senior member of the Basque separatist group ETA escaped from police custody. Ibon Fernandez Iradi was being held in the town of Bayonne, near the Spanish border, and was due to be transferred to Paris. But early on Sunday he climbed through a skylight in his cell, jumped over a wall and disappeared. French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has suspended five policemen who were on duty.

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