A notorious Eta terrorist who is the subject of an international police hunt is to give himself up at a court in Belfast.

Inaki de Juana Chaos, 52, who killed 25 people in a bloody bombing campaign in Spain during the 1980s, will appear before the court on Monday, his lawyers said.

De Juana left prison in Spain in August after serving 21 years for terrorist offences and writing threatening newspaper articles from prison, and moved to Ireland.

He was made the subject of a European arrest warrant last week after failing to answer fresh charges at a Madrid court.

The British lawyers for De Juana, Kevin R Winters & Co, told the Spanish news agency EFE yesterday that De Juana had agreed to attend the extraordinary court hearing at the Belfast Recorder’s Court.

De Juana, whose whereabouts are unknown but who is thought to be staying at an IRA safe house, is wanted in Spain for allegedly calling on Basque separatists to continue the armed struggle, a crime in Spain.

In a letter read out in his name at a rally after his release, De Juana allegedly urged Basque separatists to continue ETA’s 40-year campaign of violence.

A Spanish judge, Eloy Velasco, said Interpol believed he was in either Ireland or Northern Ireland and had started using a false identity.

Court sources in Spain yesterday told The Times the case against De Juana was flimsy and the former terrorist had probably decided facing justice was a more prudent move than remaining on the run.

After leaving jail, De Juana left Spain and was thought to have lived in a house in Dublin, which is owned by James Monaghan, a Republican who is wanted by Colombia for allegedly training Marxist Farc rebels.

De Juana gave the address of the house in Abbeyfield Road in the north of the city, when applying for a new passport at the Spanish embassy in Dublin in September.

Mr Monaghan, 61, was arrested in Colombia, along with two other men in 2001.

A court imposed a 17-year sentence in 2004 on the "Colombia Three", but they fled the country before they were jailed. Extradition requests were refused by Ireland.

Mr Monaghan was once named in the Northern Ireland Assembly as a senior IRA man.

The same house was raided on Tuesday by Irish police in connection with a bomb attack on Shell offices in Dublin. Two people were arrested.

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