THE Criminal Chamber of the National Court has already received the first requests from prisoners of the terrorist organization ETA to benefit from the modification of Organic Law 7/2014, which would allow them to validate the sentences they have served in other countries such as France.
Judicial sources have confirmed to Europa Press that the First Section already has on the table the first writings of certain convicted members of the gang in which it is requested to accumulate the judgments rendered in the French country and thus to set aside the sentences served in this country. .
It should be remembered that the ETA Sare detainee support platform, last October, estimated at 52 the total number of detainees in the group who could benefit from this modification, ensuring that there would be seven detainees who would have to be released from prison this year.
Sare highlighted the possibility that the prisoners concerned could “claim financial responsibility”, specifying that among them, 48 are in Basque penitentiaries and four in French prisons, with procedures opened in Spain. In total, they noted, 144 inmates from the gang are currently serving sentences in different regimes.
The Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT), for its part, calculated that up to 44 members of the gang could see their sentences served in France reduced, or seven members of ETA who could be released from prison thanks to this modification.
In February 2022, the government denied the existence of a “will” on the part of the Executive to reduce the sentence of ETA detainees through the modification of Organic Law 7/2014. “There is no will or intention,” said Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
But finally, last October, the PSOE and Sumar asserted their majority within the Congressional Council to definitively approve the law that validates prison sentences served in the European Union.
