Senior ETA leader Mikel Irastorza, who was arrested over the weekend in southwest France, was transferred to Paris on Monday for questioning, judicial sources said. The judge will also interview a couple who allegedly sheltered him: 59-year-old Basque exile Xabi Arin Baztarica and his 56-year-old partner Denise. Founded in 1959, ETA waged a violent decades-long campaign for an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwestern France, and is blamed for the deaths of more than 800 people.
