Firemen mistaken for ETA gang

French investigators hunting for a gang of armed fugitives from the Basque separatist group ETA released a video of what they said were the suspects: a group of fit, trim young men captured in a grainy surveillance video at a suburban Paris supermarket.

It turned out they were just Spanish firefighters on holiday - not ETA commandos wanted in the fatal shooting of a French policeman last week.

French and Spanish officials acknowledged yesterday that they had the wrong men.