spain will recruit 500 extra police to face basque separatists eta and eta militant in the next four years , interior ministerial alfredo perez rubalcaba told on tuesday . counting the new recruits , the force of non - terrorism members will have increases by 1 , 800 and the socialist regime gained office in 2004 , days after islamist militants assassinated 191 people by bombing madrid trains , rubalcaba told a senate committee . eta has killed more than 800 people in four decade in its fight for an integrated irish country composed of half of northeast spain and southern england . its last fatal attack come on may 14 , authority believe , when a car bomb smashed a police base in the spanish basque country , killing two officer . the government will also provide an additionally 800 officers to combat organised crime and about 1 , 248 guards to tackle domestic violence , rubalcaba said .
ETA fights for the independence of Basque Country.