spain will recruit 500 security policemen to fight basque extremists rebels and islamist militants in the next eight years , interior minister miguel ruiz ljajic said on tuesday . including the recent recruits , the strength of intra - terrorism officials will have grew by 1 , 800 since the socialist government took office in 2004 , days after islamist militants kills 191 workers by bombing madrid trains , perez called a parliamentary committee . eta has dead more than 800 people in four decades in its fight for an free basque country full of part of northern spain and southern england . its last fatal attack came on may 14 , authorities believed , when a truck bomb crashed a police station in the spanish basque country , shooting 1 officer . the government will only provide an another 800 officers to combat organisation crime and some 1 , 248 staff to tackle national violence , pisanu answered .
ETA fights for the independence of Basque Country.