• ETA.A court in Paris decrees the controlled release with electronic bracelet of the terrorist 'Josu Ternera'
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The historic ETA leader José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, Josu Ternera , has been released from the Parisian prison of la Santé, where he had been detained since May 2019, to go into house arrest in a flat in the French capital with exits controlled by an electronic bracelet.

Ternera, 69, left the prison at 10.38 local time (08.30 GMT) in the car of her lawyer, who had entered a quarter of an hour earlier in the penitentiary.

A group of nationalist supporters , who were waiting for his departure along with Urrutikoetxea's two eldest sons, covered the windows of the vehicle with umbrellas to try to prevent images from being taken of the former head of the terrorist gang, authorized to leave prison for reasons of Health.

His son Egoitz Urrutikoetxea said that his father's situation "is a new stage that will allow him to appear free before the judicial authorities to defend himself."

For him, the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal "calls into question the construction of the demands (for extradition and surrender) formulated by the Spanish judicial authorities", and also "opens the way, within the strict framework of application of the law , to settle the issue of Basque prisoners ".

The court explained on Wednesday that this regime of house arrest is authorized for a period of six months and that the ETA member will have to appear at all summons of justice, must deliver his identity documents and will not be able to leave French territory.

You will stay in the home of a university professor at the prestigious Superior Normal School in District III, in the heart of the French capital, and you can leave two hours in the morning and five in the afternoon from Monday to Friday and another six on Saturdays. and the Sundays.

The French Justice authorized the release of Veal from the Paris prison, in which he has been since he was captured in the French Alps in May 2019 and after 17 years in hiding, due to the risk to his health of catching the coronavirus .

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