The Paris Court of Appeal acquitted this Thursday the historic ETA leader José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, in the last proceeding he had open in France. The president of the court read the acquittal verdict in front of Ternera, who attended the hearing accompanied by his lawyers, as reported by the Efe agency. The trial, held in April, accused him of belonging to a terrorist organization for the period between December 2002 and May 2005, when he fled Spain – then a deputy in the Basque Parliament – to escape an investigation into his possible involvement in the 1987 attack on the Civil Guard barracks in Zaragoza, which killed eleven people.