After recent accusations, “Felipe Gonzalez received strong support yesterday from the former French ambassador to Madrid, who said it was inconceivable that the Spanish Prime Minister had had anything to do with the activities of anti- terrorist GAL death-squads.”
“Pierre Guidoni, France’s ambassador in Spain from 1982 to 1985 – when GAL hitmen assassinated more than 20 suspected Eta terrorists on French soil – said it was “psychologically implausible, politically absurd and technically impossible” for the Spanish government to have known anything about GAL.”
“But it was possible, Mr Guidoni conceded in yesterday’s El Pais newspaper, that Spanish anti-terrorist police took matters into their own hands.”
“France and Spain had long been at odds over Basque terrorism. France objected to cross-border raids from freelance hit-squads of Francoist origin such as the Basque Spanish Battalion and the Triple A. Spain complained that France provided a safe haven for Eta suspects.”
“It would have been “absurd, demented” for the government in Madrid to have risked destroying the close relationship it was building, Mr Guidoni said.”
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