Ex-ETA killer freed from jail on group's 40th anniversary

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ARANJUEZ, Spain (AFP) — A former ETA member guilty of 25 murders was released from a Spanish jail Saturday, as the armed Basque separatist group marked its 40 anniversary.

Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos served 20 years of an original 3,000 year sentence for the killings, which came in a string of 11 attacks.

De Juana Chaos went on three recent hunger strikes to protest against what he saw as media and judicial harassment, and against an additional three year sentence imposed on him for writing polemical tracts for a Basque newspaper.

De Juana Chaos walked out of Aranjuez prison, near Madrid, early Saturday accompanied by two lawyers and his wife.

His release came 40 years to the day after ETA's first assassination, on August 2 1968, of a Spanish police...

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