Eliminates in committee, as requested by Bildu, the only additional provision of a law which prevented the commutation of prison years spent by members of ETA outside Spain
The government has sneakily introduced a legal change in the transposition of a European directive which will benefit prisoners of the defunct terrorist group ETA who have already served years in prison outside Spain. The change, advanced by ‘El Confidencial’ and confirmed by ABC, involves the elimination of a unique additional provision in Organic Law 7/2014, on the exchange of information on the criminal record and the review of judicial resolutions criminal law in the European Union; a requirement from Bildu because, precisely, this clause prevented ETA members from taking advantage of the rule.
The bill, which went unnoticed during its processing in Congress and now in the Senate, seemed to have an innocuous objective due to its desire to adapt to European regulations. However, without the opposition realizing it, during its mandate in the Justice Commission, amendments were approved to modify article 14.1 of Organic Law 7/2014 and to remove the only additional provision that included the text approved in 2014. Above all, the latter has a consequence for the benefit of ETA prisoners who spent years in non-Spanish prisons.
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