Basque police arrest five people in Bizkaia over "street violence"

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Search in Barakaldo. Photo: EiTB

Basque police arrested five people on suspicion of engaging in street violence, Basque Government's Interior Department confirmed on Tuesday. Most of the arrests were made in the Basque town of Barakaldo.

The police operation, which follows a Spanish High Court order, seeks to clear up the recent "street violence" incidents in the area known as the left bank of the Nervion River.

Basque police also sealed a Basque youth club in Barakaldo.

Gangs of young people who allegedly back the armed Basque group ETA, carry out vandalism sprees regularly by firebombing official buildings, banks and transport facilities. The attacks are known by their name in the Basque language, "kale borroka," or street fighting.