• Justice The Civil Guard reveals that it had a mole among the ETA lawyers

  • Process The legal front of ETA sits on the bench in the last macro-trial of the terrorist gang

Inmates and former prisoners of ETA have

declared, in the trial of the alleged

legal apparatus

of the gang, that

Arantza Zulueta

and other lawyers

who were exercising their defense informed them "about the political situation in

the Basque Country

", but they have denied that they transmitted them communications from the terrorist organization.

The National Court has resumed this Tuesday the trial of "summary 13/13" with a session in which several former ETA militants convicted of their membership in the gang have testified.

This procedure is directed against eight alleged members of

Halboka

, the legal arm of the gang, which Zulueta allegedly led, for whom the

Prosecutor's Office is

asking for 19 years in prison for joining a terrorist organization as a leader and for depositing weapons and explosives.

For the rest of the accused, among whom is the lawyer

Jon Enparantza

, the Public Ministry requests between 7 and 12 years in prison for their alleged membership of ETA or collaboration with the gang.

Juan Mari Jauregui

, who died last Friday and was previously excluded from the procedure for health reasons,

was also prosecuted in

the case.

During the session this Tuesday,

Ana Belén Egües

and

Juan Lorenzo Lasa

,

Txikierdi

, former spokesmen for the group of prisoners "of the Basque cause" (EPPK) and former ETA militants, have reported that Zulueta, who served as their lawyer, he reported on the political news of the Basque conflict together with other lawyers from the collective of lawyers, known as KT.

Likewise, they have denied that this legal body was linked to ETA and that Zulueta and other defendants transmitted them communications related to the terrorist gang.

They have told about the EPPK or group of prisoners before the court chaired by magistrate

Angela Murillo

that was created in 1995 to defend the claims of "all Basque political prisoners, not just those of ETA."

Specifically, Egües and Lasa have confirmed that they held a meeting, managed by Zulueta, in the Granada prison with a representative of Penitentiary Institutions to "put on the table" the following demands: recognition as political prisoners, their reunification in the Basque prisons and the freedom of the seriously ill and of those who had served three-quarters of their sentence.

Report on prisoners

The activities of the EPPK, as both and other witnesses have affirmed, were "carried out" by the group of lawyers or KT, to which Zulueta and other defendants belonged, with "continuous communications through letters and calls."

Regarding the main defendant in this trial, they have explained that she gave them a report on the situation of all the prisoners of the EPPK "who passed without problems through the control and management of the prison" in which Lasa was located.

David Pla

, a former member of the ETA political apparatus, and

Jon Salaberria

, arrested along with

Francisco López Peña

,

Thierry

, in 2008

have also testified

, who have assured that they are not aware that the group of lawyers offered information to the gang about fled members , possible objectives to attack or efforts to collect the revolutionary tax.

In the same way, Pla and Salaberria have denied that they had an appointment in

Mimizan (France)

in May 2018, days before a meeting between Jon Enparantza and an alleged member of ETA in the surroundings of the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd of

San Sebastián

.

In addition, Salaberria has described as "implausible" the possible direct connection of the accused lawyers with the terrorist gang.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • ETA

  • Basque Country

  • France

  • Parot doctrine

  • Terrorism

TerrorismInterior moves seven other ETA members, six of them will go to Basque prisons about to be managed by the PNV

Courts 'Josu Veal', acquitted in the first case opened against him in France

Basque CountryIturgaiz denounces that EH Bildu denies the "atrocities of ETA" after paying tribute to Indiano in Zumarraga

See links of interest

  • Last News

  • Translator

  • Work calendar

  • Home THE WORLD TODAY

  • Master investigative journalism

  • Events

  • Carmen Laforet

  • Huesca - Real Oviedo