French police have arrested a suspected member of Basque separatist group ETA in central France, a police official said toy.
The Spanish man was arrested overnight between Monday and Tuesday after being discovered by a police patrol while he was asleep in a van parked by the side of a road in Mavalette, in the Haute-Loire region.
The police found an automatic pistol and false French papers in the vehicle which also had a false number plate.
ETA broke a ceasefire by detonating a powerful car bomb at Madrid airport on December 30 which killed two people, leading the Spanish government to end a nine-month-old peace process.