A suspected Basque militant was seriously injured falling from the Arc de Triomphe as he and others climbed the Paris monument to hang a protest banner today.

Police arrested six people in the protest but during the descent one got stuck in scaffolding and another fell.

The banner read "What Have You done to Jon Anza Ortunez," a member of the armed Basque group ETA who turned up in a Toulouse morgue last month, nearly a year after his mysterious disappearance.

The Spain-based Basque movement said Anza had been transporting funds when he vanished.

Meanwhile, police arrested an ETA suspect in Handaye, in south-west France.

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