He former head of the ETA military apparatus Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe, ‘Ata’and the ETA Miren Itxaso Zaldúa, ‘Sahatsa’They denied in court having given orders for the attacks committed in 2002 at the University of Navarra and in two companies in this community, as well as in the Corte Inglés in Zaragoza.
The National Court opened this Monday judgement both of whom the prosecutor is seeking 167 years in prison for four crimes of terrorist ravagesfive of injuriestwo of burglary and two others of falsificationwhich also attributes to them the accusation brought by the Association of Victims of Terrorism.
The two accused were tried a year ago by the assassination of the president of the PP of Aragon Manuel Giménez Abad On May 6, 2001, a crime for which Carrera Sarobe was sentenced to 30 years in prison and Itxaso Zaldúa, “Sahatsa,” was acquitted.
As in France, where the man who was currently serving a life sentence senior leader of the ETA military apparatus, authorized the transfer of Carrera Sarobe to Spain to be tried for these attacks with Zaldúa.
‘Ata’ acknowledged that He was a member of ETA’s Basajaun commando. But he assured that he did not commit these terrorist acts in 2002, that he did not participate in them or give instructions to carry them out, and that at that time he had no links with the other accused.
In her statement of provisional conclusions, the prosecutor emphasizes that The two accused were in charge of the said command in 2002. and this “as energizers” of the same organized these terrorist actions, indicating the objectives and providing the means for their achievement, which were carried out by ETA members who could not be identified.
Look, Itxaso Zaldúa acknowledged that in 2001 he began to realize mail job at ETA and that he limited himself to this activity until 2004, when he joined the gang structure in France, where he was responsible for storing explosive material and weapons, making an inventory of them and keeping them in a house.
“Never I made an explosive device “I did not prepare a car bomb either,” said the accused, who assured that she was not part of the ETA leadership.
During Monday’s hearing, a National Police officer recalled that on May 23, 2002, at six thirty in the afternoon, he received a notice indicating that ETA had placed Car bomb at the University of Navarrawhich eventually exploded, injuring a woman and an officer.
He said the explosion caused damage to the university building, particularly in the cafeteria area, which could be dislodged before the explosionas well as in a student residence and in a van.
Another officer reported that at approximately 9:45 p.m. on June 21, he received three calls alerting him that A car bomb was about to explode in El Corte Inglés in Zaragoza but each one indicated a different time, one at 10:30 p.m., others at 11:00 p.m., and finally the correct one, 10:15 p.m., was the one provided by the San Sebastian police station.
“Was very little time and they told us the car was in the basement, but there were three in the building,” the officer said.
According to the prosecutor in his indictment, the explosion “caused a crater about 5×7 meters in diameter” and left several people injured, including a sworn security guard.
The two accused are also being tried for their alleged participation in the attacks committed on November 29 of the same year. against two companies in the Navarrese municipalities of Azagra and Argedasin which the gang detonated two devices in revenge for refusing to pay the so-called “revolutionary tax” demanded by ETA.
