Henri Parot (born 6 May 1958) is a member of the

Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous co ...

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group

ETA Eta ( ; uppercase , lowercase ; ''ē̂ta'' or ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel, . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative, , in most dialects of Ancient Greek, it ...

. He was born in

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in 1958, the son of a Basque-French marriage that migrated to

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. When the

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ended and he was three years old, he returned to France and in the Basque-French city of

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when he was 16 years old, where he learned the

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. He was arrested on April 2, 1990, in

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after an exchange of gunfire with the Spanish police. In 1990, he was given a 4,797 year sentence for 26 murders and 166 attempted murders between 1978 and 1990. He was also convicted of involvement in the 1987 Zaragoza Barracks bombing which killed eleven people, including five children.

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* p. 62
Report of the Committee Against Torture

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General Assembly, 50th session.
"ETA killer sentenced to serve 30 years"
''The Age'', February 21, 2006.

''El Mundo'' Partido Popular, August 1, 2006.

''Chicago Sun-Times'', December 20, 1990. 1958 births Living people People of French Algeria ETA (separatist group) activists People from Bayonne Pieds-noirs French people convicted of murder People convicted of murder by Spain {{BasqueCountry-bio-stub

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