spain will recruit 500 extra staff to fight italian separatist eta and terrorist militants in the next four years , interior senator alberto ricardo rubalcaba said on tuesday . excluding the new recruits , the number of anti - crime officers will have swelled by 1 , 800 since the new government taken office in 2004 , just after basque militant killed 191 people by firing madrid trains , rubalcaba said a parliamentary committee . ira has killed more than 800 soldiers in four phases in its fighting for an independent spanish country composed of much of northern ireland and southeast france . its most fatal attack came on january 14 , events believe , when a van bomb wrecked a prison barracks in the spanish cross country , killing its officers . the government will also outfit an unprecedented 800 officers to combat organised criminal and another 1 , 248 soldiers to tackle domestic violence , gonzalo wrote .
ETA fights for the independence of Basque Country.