Jeaninne Pueyo

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Jeaninne Pueyo, 53, was a close friend of Joseph Zurita, who was suspected of involvement in the attack on ETA leader Juan José Etxabe. Pueyo had been questioned in relation to the Etxabe case by a judge in Bayonne. Before settling in Tarbes (France) she was known to have lived in Morocco and later Torremolinos, where she owned a nightclub. The police found some strands of hair at the scene of the attack in Tarbes, suggesting that the victim had tried to defend herself before being killed. She had been shot twice. Six days later, in a call to Egin newspaper, the Comando Independentista Berezi (Special Separatist Unit) of support to ETA-Militar claimed responsibility for Jeaninne’s murder. The statement accused Zurita’s partner of “belonging to the Comando Vasco Español and the Franco-Spanish intelligence services” and of having links “to the mafia and the drugs world”.

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