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Spanish and European courts have issued court judgments against the granting of public subsidies to the organizations of relatives of ETA members and ruling out increasing the compensation for a widow of a terrorist killed by the GAL . The Supreme Court of Justice of the Basque Country (TSJPV) maintains in a judgment against the Vitoria City Council that both Etxerat and Sare defend partisan approaches in their social initiatives that go against the principle of "political neutrality" of the administration and therefore do not they can receive public subsidies for those acts. The sentence allows the Government Delegation may contest part of the public financing of these two groups that demand the rapprochement of the members of the gang and their release.

Superior Court orders the Basque City of Vitoria chaired by Gorka Urtaran (PNV) to recover 9,000 euros granted Etxerat and Sare, groups made up of relatives of ETA prisoners and persons close to the left - wing nationalism . Aid related to the organization of events formally related to human rights but that the judges dismantle in their sentence. The court agrees with the delegate of the central government in the Basque Country, Javier de Andrés, and maintains that these organizations propose "political re-divisions" protected by political pluralism but cannot be subsidized with public aid. A criterion that would enable the Government Delegation in the Basque Country led by the socialist Denis Itxaso to challenge all the public subsidies that Etxerat and Sare receive from the Basque administrations.

In fact, the PP of Vitoria through its spokesperson Leticia Comerón has demanded that Urtaran demand the return to Etxerat and Sare of the 18,500 euros it has received in the last three years. "The PNV de Álava has demonstrated, with the systematic granting of aid to the environment of the ETA prisoners, its radicality and now the courts credit our firm opposition since it began with this covert financing," Comerón warned, very skeptical of the role of the Socialist Party of Euskadi. The party of Idoia Mendia co-governs with the PNV in the Alava institutions and facilitated these subsidies in Álava and the socialist delegate Jesús Loza did not contest in court the last aid granted in January 2006.

Sare, a group led by former Justice Counselor Joseba Azkarraga , disqualified the sentence on the understanding that it "goes back in time past" and recommended to the judges who have ordered it to "abandon their robes and dedicate themselves to politics" as they "persist in reflecting their phobias and political affiliations in their sentences ».

On the other hand, the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights has decided to dismiss the claim made by the widow of ETA member Vicente Perurena Telletxea who was assassinated by the GALen 1984. After receiving almost 200,000 euros from the State, he claimed another 112,000 euros.

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