Spanish police detained two suspected members of the Basque separatist guerrilla group ETA today, the Interior Ministry said.
Juan Cortes de Luis, 23, and his 31-year-old lover, Susana Achaerandio Alesanco, were detained at a house in Zuazo, near Vitoria in the northern Basque region, the ministry said in a statement.
The couple are suspected of involvement in criminal activities on behalf of ETA, including drawing up notes on targets for attacks, it said. Police seized documents, a rusted revolver, computer equipment and cash, it added.
The operation stemmed from the 1999 arrest of another ETA suspect linked to two truck bombs, it said. This arrest had led to the dismantling of ETA's Basurde Commando, it said.
ETA, recently included on a European Union list of terrorist groups, has killed more than 800 people since it launched a bloody campaign for Basque independence more than 30 years ago. At Spain's request, Dutch police arrested a Spanish man suspected of being an ETA member in Amsterdam yesterday, the city's public prosecutor said.