ETA Ana Belén Egües Gurruchagaaka “Dolores”, He will sit on the bench from Monday. for his participation in the attack carried out by the terrorist group on August 8, 2000 in Platerías Street in Madrid, in which eleven people were injured, events for which the prosecution is requesting 121 years in prison against him.
The trial will begin on Monday before the National Court for the events that occurred 24 years ago in the aforementioned street in the Madrid neighborhood of Chamartín, where eleven people, including two children, were injured, two of them seriously, in the explosion of a car bomb.
In anticipation of the trial, the prosecution requests Egües Gurruchaga 16 years in prison for terrorist attack And 15 years in prison for each of the seven crimes of attempted terrorist assassination of which he accuses him, always as a necessary cooperator.
The prosecution reports that the accused was a member of ETA in 2000within the Buro Ahuste command, which operated in Madrid, although he had an apartment in Salamanca where attacks were planned and weapons and explosives were stored.
He specifies that in September 1999 They moved to Madrid the accused and Iván Apaolaza, alias “Braulio”; Gorka Palacios, alias “Andoni” and “Jesús”, and Juan Luis Rubenach, alias “Txurdo”, “Honorio” and “Julio”.
They settled in several apartments in Madrid and on January 7, 2000, the accused stole a Peugeot 205 in the Fuencarral district of Madrid from which the command removed the authentic license plate, installed another one and placed a dynamite device “which the accused had provided and which she had taken home.”
Then other members of the command They parked the car bomb on Platerías Street in Madridwhere it exploded on August 8, 2000.
Ana Belén Egües Gurruchaga She had already been sentenced in 2014 to 126 years in prison. for the assassination of Lieutenant Colonel Pedro Antonio Blanco in January 2000, which marked the end of the truce declared by ETA in 1998.
He is also serving a sentence for the car bomb attack on November 6, 2001, on Corazón de María Street in Madrid against the Secretary General for Science Policy, Juan Junquera, during which 95 people were injured.
Penitentiary establishments He transferred her to a prison in the Basque Country in February 2022.
