Giuseppe Conte, Italy's new PM, in Rome on May 23, 2018. Alberto Lingria/Press Assocation. All rights reserved.
Arnaldo Otegi wrote for the Guardian last week. His was a first. So, who is he? Five times he ended up in jail. Behind bars, having dropped the gun for a pen, he could finally focus on gaining a degree and improving his English.
The former member of the ETA terrorist group – now a mainstream leader, the chieftain of the izquierda abertzale (or patriotic left) and one of Spain's most controversial politicians – commented for the London newspaper on the official end of the Basque armed gang that had terrorised a whole country for over four decades. It was founded in 1958 and ceased to exist early this month.
