The former head of Spain's state security service has been detained in connection with the murder fifteen years ago of a leading Basque separatist. An investigating magistrate accused Julian Sancristobal of ordering the murder of Santiago Brouard, a leader of the political wing of the Basque separatist movement, ETA.
Brouard, a doctor, was shot dead in his clinic in the northern city of Bilbao in 1984. Sancristobal is also accused of using secret interior ministry funds to pay for the killing. He was an associate of the then Interior Minister, who was jailed for his role in the so-called "dirty war" against Basque terrorists. He was freed on a partial pardon in December, along with several other leading Socialists.
