The Basque separatist group ETA has given the French police a list of arms caches in southwestern France under its unilateral initiative to disarm, informed sources told AFP on Saturday.
The caches are located in the departments, or counties, of the Gers, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Hautes-Pyrénées, they said. The French interior ministry said that the so-called "Disarmament Day" was "incontestably important" and a "major step".
French Interior Minister Matthias Fekl said ETA had handed authorities a list containing eight arms caches sites.
"As the locations are progressively identified, the security forces will carry out operations to secure these sites and secure arms and explosives that may be found there," he said.
According to Michel Tubiana, a human-rights lawyer who is a member of a group acting as intermediary in the handover, the caches contain 120 firearms and three tonnes of explosives.
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