THE National Court will sit on the bench on Monday former ETA leaders Miren Itxaso Zaldúa, ‘Sahatsa’, and Mikel Kabikoitz Carrera Sarobe, Atafor his alleged participation in Attack on the University of Navarre and two companies from La Ribera in 2008.
The prosecution demands both sentenced to 167 years in prison for a total of four crimes of terrorist ravagesfive of terrorist injuriestwo of burglary and two others of falsification.
The two former leaders of the terrorist group were tried a year ago by the assassination of the president of the PP of Aragon Manuel Giménez Abad on May 6, 2001a crime for which Carrera Sarobe was sentenced to 30 years in prison and Itxaso Zaldúa, “Sahatsa”, was acquitted.
As then, Francewhere the former top leader of the ETA military apparatus is currently serving a life sentence, authorized the transfer of Carrera Sarobe to Spain to be tried for these attacks with Zaldúa.
On the afternoon of May 23, 2002, ETA parked a car bomb loaded with twenty kilos of explosives on the rear facade of the Central Building of the University of Navarre.
Someone called the editorial office pro-ETA newspaper Gara in San Sebastian and the standard DYA in Pamplona in which they announced that “a White Ford Escort“would explode” in half an hour.
The National Police has deployed an operation around the building: students, pedestrians and employees were evacuated, one of the two nearest university residences was evacuated and removed some vehicles parked next to the car bomb. The vehicle used by the terrorists was identified and the agents later verified that it had false license plates and that the plates had been cut with a machine that the gang had stolen from Mondragón a year and a half before.
THE The explosion occurred two minutes after 9 p.m. and did not cause any bodily harm. Regarding the material data, it was affected the rear structure of the central building and a van that could not be removed in time.
The two former ETA leaders will also be tried for their alleged participation in the attacks on the company on November 29. Virto frozen and society Uvesain the Navarrese municipalities of Azagra and Argedasrespectively.
This will not be the last attack on the University of Navarra. On October 30, 2008, they exploded another car bomb in the parking lot located between the Central building and the Library from the university center, mid-morning, with classrooms full of thousands of students.
The prosecution reports that members of the Basajaun command, “in execution of the instructions given by the accused”, planted and detonated two devices against the companies that day “as revenge”. for refusing to pay the so-called “revolutionary tax” that the terrorist group demanded.
