Three point-blank murders: the crimes in Andalusia of the ETA member released by the PES

On October 16, 2000, the National Police arrested Jon Igor Solana Matarranz and Harriet Iragi Gurrutxaga, members of ETA, in Seville, after a spectacular persecution in which citizen collaboration was essential. Both had just assassinated medical colonel Antonio Muñoz Cariñanos in his own office. Today, the Basque Socialist Party (PSE) approved, on the proposal of the Prison Treatment Commission, the third degree for one of the two murderers, Harriet Iragi, who had been sentenced to more than a hundred years in prison for the three crimes he committed in Andalusia. A few weeks before assassinating Dr. Muñoz Cariñanos, the two ETA members had assassinated the Malaga PP councilor, José María Martín Carpena, and the TSJA attorney general, Luis Portero. Furthermore, during the year and a half that the two gunmen operated in Andalusia, they attempted to eliminate Malaga socialist leader José Asenjo, two army non-commissioned officers and a civilian employee of the Ministry of Defense. Defense by placing sticky bombs in their premises. cars that did not explode.The criminal career of the new commando Harriet Iragui began in the first months of 1999, when ETA decided to rebuild its infrastructure in southern Spain after in May 1998 the police arrested the three terrorists who murdered Alberto Jiménez. and his wife, Ascensión García Ortiz. The new command of Andalusia was installed in a shelter located in block 5 of Plaza Playa de Punta Umbría, in Macarena. After months of surveillance work and several failed attacks, on Saturday July 15, 2000, at 9:40 p.m., PP councilor José María Martín Carpena was murdered in front of his home, while driving his car to help his wife and husband. daughter in Pregón de la Biznaga. The terrorist who fired, in this case Jon Igor Solana, had to fire six shots because, at the time of committing the crime, his pulse was trembling and he missed the first two shots. The councilor tried to take refuge between the cars but was hit by ETA, who shot him four more times, one of which hit him in the back of the head. He then fled in a car driven by Harriet Iragi. Just four days after the assassination of José María Martín Carpena, the two terrorists attempted to assassinate José Asenjo, then number two of the Andalusian PSOE. The failure of the detonator of a sticky bomb attached to his car saved the politician, his wife and his 15-year-old daughter who was traveling with him. The terrorists did not kill again until after the summer. On October 9, they traveled to Granada and murdered Luis Portero with two bullets in the back as he waited for the elevator to go up to his house to have lunch with his wife. In this case, Harriet Iragi was shot. A few hours later, as the attorney general of Andalusia lay dying in hospital, a member of the terrorist group called the family home to “confirm” that he had died. Escape and detention. A week later, on October 16, the two terrorists went to the hospital. consultation with Dr. Muñoz Cariñanos, on Padre Cañete Street in Seville, with whom they had made a medical appointment. In addition to being an otolaryngologist, Muñoz Cariñanos was a colonel in the Air Force. They entered his office with their faces uncovered and shot him several times at close range. The ETA members fled, to the great astonishment of those present at the clinic, who notified the police. A spectacular chase began with gunfire and ended in the Macarena area with the immediate arrest of two terrorists and a third, already injured, at dawn.

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