Seven convicts from the ETA terrorist group could be released from prison today. November 8When the rule will come into forceand an eighth will also automatically benefit despite being at home since 2019 due to mental illness. THE ‘Txapote Law‘fixes its entry into force twenty days after its publication in the BOE, i.e. since this Saturday. From now on, prisoners of the ETA terrorist group will be able to demand that the years in prison they spent in France for previous convictions be deducted from their sentence.
The courts will analyze on a case by case basis, but the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) has prepared a report which provides for the release of seven members of ETA without counting Aitzol Gogorza. The latter spent more than eleven years behind bars in the neighboring country and was sentenced to another twenty years by the National Court for attempted murder against the guard of the Martutene prison (San Sebastián). Juan Jose Baezaseriously injured by a bullet to the neck. Due to mental illness, he has been out of prison for five years.
Among the seven ETA members who could be released from prison once the law is implemented, there are two with blood crimes: Juan Ramón Casatorre, alias Shoewho murdered the former Basque regional deputy of the PP Gregorio Ordonezto the military Mariano de Juan and the chief inspector of the National Police Enrique Viyella; and on the other hand, the terrorist Felix Alberto Lopez de Lacallesaid Mobutu, who killed the civil guards Avelino Palma, Ángel Prado and José Luis Vázquez.
In addition to them, and always if the AVT estimates are respected – including the president, Maite Aralucecomplained in vain to the president of the government, Pedro Sanchezthe withdrawal of the Txapote’ law -, Jon Mirena San Pedro, sentenced to fifty years in prison for the attempted attack against a police officer in Barakaldo, will be released from prison; Balbino Sáez, sentenced to 108 years in prison for the attempted assassination of former PSOE ministers José Barrionuevo and Matilde Fernández, and for the failed attack on two police vans.
This Sánchez law will also benefit Ismael Berasategui, who prepared car bombs in the Behorburu commando; Luis Enrique Garate, sentenced to 54 years for participation in the kidnapping of Alava industrialist Lucio Aguinagalde and Gregorio Vicario, sentenced to 18 years for attempted car bomb attack against a police patrol in Barcelona, for the kidnapping of businessman Cosme Delclaux and another 154 years for an attack on the military government of Barcelona.
44 ETA members benefited
The Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) denounced that 44 members of ETA will be able to deduct the sentences they served in France thanks to the law on exchange of criminal record information and the examination of criminal judicial resolutions in the European Union.
But the group of victims seems resigned: “Sooner or later, the Bilduetar roadmap aimed at emptying the prisons will be respected, and these gentlemen Sanchez and Marlaska “They will be able to boast all their lives of being cult figures of ETA members.”
This standard was first approved unanimously in Congress due to an error by the PP and Vox and it was only during its last parliamentary phase in the Senate, after a complaint from the AVT denouncing that the validation of sentences also affected ETA prisoners, as it lost support. wing formations and was rejected by the plenary of the Upper House last Monday.
