The Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) does not believe the answer given by the Ministry of the Interior that it does not foresee any legislative modification so that the sentences served by ETA members in France are deducted from those that remain to be served in Spain and which would mean the freedom of 48 ETA inmates.

For this reason, the association has announced this Friday that it will soon call a demonstration considering that the "next steps" of the Government, once the powers of Penitentiary Institutions have been transferred to the Basque Executive, will be aimed at repealing the maximum limit of prison compliance of the 40-year-old ETA members and that the years in prison served in France can be deducted.

The president of the AVT, Maite Araluce, accompanied by her adviser Miguel Folguera and her lawyers Antonio Guerrero and Carmen Ladrón de Guevara presented a report this Friday on the consequences of a reform of the 2014 Organic Law on the exchange of criminal record information and consideration of criminal court decisions in the European Union.

A legal modification that from the General Directorate of Support for Victims of Terrorism has been denied through a letter in which they clarify that the Government does plan to undertake but with the sole objective of transposing an EU directive on the exchange of criminal record.

"They lie to us and deceive us as always", Araluce has recriminated, convinced that the plans to cut the sentences of the ETA members "are on the table" of the Government and "sooner or later they will try to sneak it in".

The alert, both Araluce and Ladrón de Guevara explained at a press conference, has jumped to the association after the spokesman for the citizen network in support of ETA Sare prisoners, Joseba Azkarraga, held a meeting with a prisoner, which he assured, according to what has been publicly revealed, that these regulatory plans were "on track".

If any regulatory change is finally implemented, the AVT advances that of the 185 ETA members in prison in Spain, 48 would directly benefit from their release.

Seven of them would hit the streets immediately, another three this year and the rest on subsequent dates.

In addition to them, seven other ETA prisoners serving sentences in France would see their sentences shortened once their sentences were settled there and they had pending cases in Spain.

"The victims are fed up, hurt, sunk and trampled by a government that does not stop deceiving us, neglecting us and using us as a bargaining chip. We have reached the limit," Araluce made clear before Folguera announced that in the near future the AVT will convene a mobilization.

"We will have to once again ask for the support of the citizens so that they raise the flag of dignity," he concluded.

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