Spanish Civil Guard discovered explosives, detonators and private communiqués from ETA

Spanish Guard found explosives in the Guipúzcoa town of Legorreta where brothers Aitor and Igor Esnaola Dorronsoro were arrested on 

On Tuesday morning, the Spanish Civil Guard discovered explosives, detonators and private communiqués from ETA in searches carried out during an investigation following the arrests of two suspected members of the armed Basque group in the Guipuzcoan town of Legorreta.
According to sources within the antiterrorist division, police uncovered a quantity of unidentified explosives, detonators and documentation in which the name "Zutabes" is cited.
During the searches carried out on the suspects homes on Tuesday, the Civil Guard impounded a white van and a family car which were parked in a subterranean garage at the home of Igor Esnaola.
A second premises located on the national highway that runs through the centre of Legorreta, which was also searched, is believed to be accessible from the detainee's residence. There the Civil Guard seized a number of boxes containing documentation, as well as a hunting rifle used to hunt pigeons.
Supporters of the arrested suspect gathered outside his home and shouted cries of support such as "gudari" (warrior) "irabazi arte" (until victory).
Searches were also carried out on a family farmhouse located on the outskirts of the town, in the district of Berostegi.
Erreka Comando
The two ETA suspects were allegedly members of an as yet "unregistered commando" known as Erreka, apparently active during a number of years given that it features in documentation seized in France in 2002 during the arrest of the former ETA chief Ibon Fernández Iradi, known as Susper.
Also among the papers seized in France was a coded note which identifies the two suspects arrested on Tuesday.
Arrests
On Tuesday morning, Spanish police arrested two alleged members of the armed group ETA in the Basque town of Legorreta (Gipuzkoa), suspected of forming part of the armed group's logistics network, antiterrorist sources revealed.
The suspects, two brothers in their forties identified as Aitor and Igor Esnaola Dorronsoro, are thought to be 'legal members' of ETA, (without police records). They were presumably in charge of distributing explosives to other cells of the armed group.
The police operation comes two days after French police arrested two suspected members of the group, identified as Oier Gomez and Itziar Moreno, after a checkpoint shootout and overnight sweep by hundreds of police and helicopters in the Creuse region of central France.
The suspects, a couple in a car, broke through a checkpoint and opened fire before abandoning their car and vanishing late on Saturday. Hundreds of police backed up by helicopters were deployed to track the couple down and captured them on Sunday morning after another shootout, the statement said.
So far, 35 presumed members of ETA have been arrested this year since the armed group called a ceasefire January 10th.

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