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The former leader of ETA José Antonio Urrutikoetxea Bengoetxea , Josu Ternera , has signed as a defense lawyer to lawyer Gonzalo Boye, who was already convicted of collaborating with the terrorist organization in the 1990s.
Veal has decided to appoint his defender and so is already collected by the head of Court number 3 of the National Court, receiving the request sent from France by the terrorist. He is your lawyer since last day 20.
The former leader of ETA is in France pending that the justice of the neighboring country decides on the extradition requested by Spain to be tried for the attack on the headquarters of the Civil Guard in Zaragoza .
Now, Veal has decided to incorporate one of the most media and controversial lawyers into its defense. Boye was arrested in 1992 along with three other people of Chilean nationality. They belonged to the Chilean MIR . They were linked to the ETA command that kidnapped Emiliano Revilla .
He was finally convicted of collaborating in the kidnapping of Revilla. In 1996 he was sentenced to a sentence of 14 years in prison. Recently, the National Court decided to seize the Boye salary, since it did not face the indemnities to which it was condemned. He will have to pay the compensation imposed by the National Court for helping ETA in the kidnapping of businessman Emiliano Revilla in 1988 at the hands of the command led by José Luis Urrusolo Sistiaga . In addition to the jail sentence, the lawyer was sentenced to indemnify Revilla with 200 million pesetas (1.2 million euros) jointly with the other two convicted in the same oral hearing, as well as to pay the costs of the trial .
Confidential information
At the end of 2017, Boye also became part of the defense of Carles Puigdemont, the former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia escaped from Justice. Now, this lawyer will be responsible for the defense of Veal , which tries to prevent the French Justice from approving the request of Spain to be extradited and tried at the National Court.
And for this, the ETA leader has had access to high-level confidential information, from the French intelligence services, to prepare his defense briefs.
In the OED documentation (European arrest and surrender order), the defense cites reports prepared by the UCLAT , a French service very similar to the National Intelligence Center , which questions the role of Josu Ternera in the direction of the terrorist organization in some of the required years. With these reports, the terrorist's defense tries to avoid the judicial pressure of the National Court, his claim for crimes against humanity.
It will finally be on March 4 when the French Justice dictates the situation of the historic ETA, one of the most elusive, who managed to circumvent police, civil guards, French agents and intelligence services for five years. Josu Ternera played a key role in the negotiations between the terrorists and the Government of Rodríguez Zapatero.
Pending causes
In the case there are two reports, one from the Civil Guard (neat and full of details) and another from the National Police, something more summarized, in which the status of ETA political leader of José Antonio Urrutikoetxea was defended before the judicial authority , Josu Veal . Specifically, as maximum political responsible.
Veal is claimed for the car bomb attack against the barracks of the Civil Guard of Zaragoza, on December 11, 1987 and in which 11 people died - five girls between three and 12 years and a teenager of 16 - and another 88 People were injured. Investigators consider Urrutikoetxea inducer of this terrorist action.
Likewise, the summary is pending for crimes against humanity, opened by the Central Court of Instruction number 3 against the last leaders of the terrorist gang after the complaint filed by Dignity and Justice and the Luis Portero Foundation . The cause is focused on the attacks committed by the band from October 2004. It was that date when the crime against humanity was introduced into the Spanish Criminal Code , punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
This cause, investigated by magistrates Carmen Lamela and Juan Pablo González , attributes to the leaders of the band the maximum responsibility on the mortal attacks committed by ETA since 2004, among them the attack of the T-4 of Madrid, in December of 2006 , in which the Ecuadorian citizens Carlos Alonso Palate and Diego Armando Estacio died ; the murder of PSE councilor Isaías Carrasco , in March 2008; the death of businessman Ignacio Uría , in December of that year; and that of police inspector Eduardo Puelles, in June 2009.
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