The support network for ETA detainees, saricalculated that at least 52 ETA prisoners They will be able to benefit from the legal reform which will allow them to count their time of detention in France, including seven could be released from prison before the end of the year.
SO, the number of ETAs increases who will benefit from sentence reductions. At the beginning, this figure was 44, among whom Txapote, murderer of Miguel Ángel Blanco, who will see his sentence reduced by six years, so that he can be released from prison in a few months since his sentence ended in 2031.
The spokesperson for the ETA detainee support network, Joseba Azkarraga, explained this Thursday that there is currently 140 members of ETA in Basque and Navarrese prisons – under different regimes – and four others in France.
According to their calculations, there will be 52 – and not 44 -, 48 in the prisons of the Basque Country and Navarre and the four in France, who will be able to benefit from the new rule, even if to do this, each prisoner will have to, by through their lawyer, to request before the sentencing chamber – the National Court – that the law be applied to them in order to be able to leave prison earlier.
In this sense, Sare asks that there are no “twisting maneuvers” judges to delay his release from prison.
Clash between Congress and the Senate
However, the law on criminal records, which will allow the early release of some ETA members, is still in force. to wait for due to a clash between the two chambers. This Tuesday, Congress approved this law and announced that it would not vote on it again as requested by the Senate, which considered that the rejection of the text by an absolute majority of the Upper House was equivalent to a veto.
The Congressional Council ignored the “veto” of the norm, which was returned by the Senate by its president. He popular Pedro Rollan It is based on the 12-page report submitted last Friday by the General Secretariat of the Chamber.
The opinion states that the “global and frontal rejection” of the absolute majority of the plenary session “must be understood as equivalent to a veto” on the law, even if he did not meet the formal requirement of presenting it in writing and arguing it. He the deadline for doing so was met one week before, Monday September 30.
This decision by the Congressional Council came without a written report from the lawyers. As published by EL ESPAÑOL, a spokesperson for the president of Congress, the Socialist Party Francine Armengolassured that the decision of the governing body of Congress, with a majority composed of the PSOE and its parliamentary partners, was based on some oral “recommendations” and that the PP document arrived after the deadline and therefore they would send the text to the BOE. For the moment, it is not published.
After that, the Senate and its members announced that they would appeal the decision of the Congress Council to the Constitutional Court.
