Daniel Porteropresident of the Dignity and Justice association and son of Luis GoalkeeperAttorney General of Andalusia murdered by ETA in 2000, declared himself “disappointed by the rule of law” on Wednesday for the granting of third degree to ETA member Harriet Iragi Gurrutxagaconvicted of three murders: that of Portero, in Granada, that of councilor PP José María Martin Carpenain Malaga, and that of the doctor and army colonel Antonio Muñoz Cariñanosin Seville.
On his social networks, the PP deputy in the Madrid Assembly also attacked the promoters of this pardon measure: “I neither forget nor forgive and I will not forgive the PSOE for freeing the material murderers of my father after 23 years in prison and 3 murders, including the father of my friend Pablo Cariñanos.
Harriet Iragi, sentenced to 128 yearshas been in prison for 24 years, but will be able to benefit from a semi-liberty regime after the Basque Government grants him the third diploma. This is the first measure of pardon granted to an ETA convict since the PSOE took over the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, headed by the the socialist María Jesús San José.
Luis Porter He was shot dead in his doorway on October 9, 2000 while waiting for the elevator. Harriet Iragi and Jon Igor Solana They were found guilty as material perpetrators of the crime. The same ETA members were convicted of murder Antonio Muñoz Cariñanos in your query. They gave him a doctor’s appointment on October 16 of the same year and shot him at point-blank range. Jose Maria Martine Carpena He was assassinated on July 15, 2000, while getting into his car accompanied by his wife and 17-year-old daughter. Jon Igor Solana Matarrán shot him six times and fled in a vehicle in which Harriet Iragi was waiting.
Goalkeeper: “It hurts my soul”
In the declarations to Radio Canal SurPortero clarified that beyond the sadness with which he and his family receive such news, they feel disappointment with the “application of the law” in this case. “My father applied the law impartially throughout his life,” he noted.
General prison law includes the need “not only” to apologize to the victims, but also to “collaborate in an express and concrete manner” with justice. And in this case, Portero remembers, “one of the members of the command, Igor Solana” wrote a letter at the time in which he said that the one who “gave him the orders was Txapote”, but he and Ainhoa Mujika Goñi, also leader of the military ETA at the time, is “freed from this cause”.
In the political field, Portero regretted that the one who granted the third diploma to Iragi in the Basque Country was a socialist councilor, in reference to the head of Justice.
“This is what also hurts my soul”, because the socialists, “especially in the Basque Country, have suffered a lot” and have had many “victims”, he added. “It seems incredible that they bowed to a handful of Bildu blood votes to support the president of the government,” concluded Pedro Sánchez.
I neither forget nor forgive, nor will I forgive the PSOE for releasing my father’s material murderers after 23 years in prison and 3 murders, including my friend’s father.
Covite: “They are not sorry”
For his part, the Collective of Victims of Terrorism in the Basque Country (Covite) asked the Prosecutor’s Office near the National Court to resort to the third degrees authorized by the Basque Government for ETA prisoners Harriet Iragi and Luis Mariñelarena, considering that “they do not repent” and remain “linked to the Abertzale left”.
Mariñelarena is serving a sentence for participation in the car bomb attack that killed the former vice-president of the Basque Government, the socialist Fernando Buesa, and his bodyguard Jorge Díez Elorza.
“You can’t be with Sortu/Bildu and be sorry. Therefore, they should not advance in degree so cheerfully. We demand that the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court appeals these last two third diplomas granted by the Basque Government so that they are annulled”, the association chaired by Consuelo Ordóñez underlined on the networks.
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office at the National Court is the only institution that can cancel these third degrees, and must do so in the interest of the victims’ right to justice. The Prosecutor’s Office must guarantee our right to justice in the phase of execution of sentences”, added Covite, who accuses the Minister of Justice and Human Rights of the Basque Government of continuing the “fraudulent” policy of the PNV in this matter.
