Solitary confinement for the 10 arrested in Donostia

The ten arrested accused of taking part in "kale borroka" or street fighting remain in solitary confinement in Madrid, while waiting to testify before Fernando Grande-Marlaska, a judge in the National Audience court, who has condemned the operation.

An important operation, according to the Spanish Minister of Interior Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba: "10 alleged activists of what we could call street fighting organizations have been arrested by this broad operation, which will allow us to know and take to court the last street violence crimes in Donostia", the Minister underlines.

The Interior Ministry says the 10 are accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a police station, setting fires and carrying out other attacks in the Basque region since 2005.

The arrests were made overnight in the Basque towns of Errenteria, Oiartzun and Arrasate following an order of the Spanish High Court judge Fernando Grande-Marlaska.

One of the three arrested for complaining about the detention of his flat mate in Arrasate- Mondragón was released last night, as the Pro-admisty organization Askatasuna has reported. He went to hospital in Donostia- San Sebastian yesterday evening, where he was diagnose as having acute gastroenteritis. He was then taken to the police station again. The other two arrested will have to testify before the Court in Bergara today.

The ten arrested people, who range in age from 20 to 27, are accused of being responsible for a dozen of "kale borroka" crimes in Errenteria, Oiartzun and Lezo (Gipuzkoa) in the last 3 years. The arrested were believed responsible for throwing molotov cocktails to a socialist city councilor’s vehicle and a Basque policeman’s home and most of the street violence on electrical substations and EuskoTren installations.

In the 18 searchings in several homes, one "herriko taberna" (Outlawed Basque party Batasuna’s tavern) and in two "gaztetxes", (Basque left nationalist - social centers), police have seized computer material, mobile telephones and propaganda of the illegalized organization SEGI, according to the Interior Minister.

Askatasuna has denounced that the arrested people are totally defenseless during their period of solitary confinement.