Ex-leader of Basque group ETA to appear in French court

The former leader of Basque separatist group ETA, Josu Ternera, will face justice in France after years on the run, with the first of two retrials in Paris to begin on Monday. Ternera, whose real name is Jose Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea, headed the group from 1977 to 1992 and is thought to have been behind a strategy of combining car bomb and shooting attacks in the Spanish state in the 1980s. He was later designated as a negotiator in…