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"Next Tuesday I have a new meeting with Ángel Luis. Do you have anything specific that interests you to transfer?".

This is one of the messages detected in the investigation of the Civil Guard on the acts of reception of ETA prisoners, which has ended up uncovering the contacts between the Government and the environment of the terrorist group ETA to deal with the approaches and releases.

The decrypted messages in the

indicate that information on prison matters is transferred from the Ministry of the Interior and, in the opposite direction, requests are received.

"Hala, to pass the list of priorities", it is read in one of the messages.

A key figure in the contacts is the Secretary General of Penitentiary Institutions,

, in the post since 2018, with the appointment of Fernando Grande-Marlaska as Minister of the Interior.

On the side of the gang, the main piece is the historic ETA member

,

, arrested in 2020 in the case opened by a Dignity and Justice complaint as the alleged coordinator of the

.

Whatsapp conversations analyzed in the report of the Armed Institute were extracted from his phone.

Between Ortiz and

two figures appear.

In particular, that of former Basque Minister of Justice

, one of the heads of Sare, the support network for ETA prisoners.

According to the report, it is Azcarraga who has meetings with "the one from Madrid", in reference to Ortiz.

participates in the preparation of the meetings

, who then receives the report of how they have gone.

The fourth piece in the contacts is the deputy of Bildu in the Basque Parliament,

.

"Anything that interests you?"

"It has been known", says the report, "that Joseba Azcarraga maintains frequent contact with a person in charge of Penitentiary Institutions (IIPP), in numerous messages Joseba refers to this person as 'El de Madrid', with whom he contacts both by telephone and personally through meetings when he travels to Madrid, updating

['

] of all the information he receives from this individual".

The report sent to the National Court, which

reported this Wednesday , includes the message sent in April 2019 by Azkarraga to the Bildu deputy.

This forwards him to the

called "Our framework", which

and

, also ETA members,

and the ETA lawyer

.

"Next Tuesday I have a new meeting with Ángel Luis [Ortiz]. Do you have anything specific that interests you to transfer?" Azkarraga writes.

Bildu's politician, when sending him to the

with the former ETA prisoners, adds: "Come on, let's go over the list of priorities."

And they pass it.

Saez de Eguilaz and Sertucha "send several messages with lists of priorities, consisting of movements of several ETA prisoners from one penitentiary center to another, so that no one is left alone and so that they can be closer to their families when they go to visit them." ", explains in report.

The messages with priorities pose, for example, "That

joins

in Villabona. And

with

in Logroño", "

i a Burgos with

";

"And permission from

...".

Two days after the meeting in Madrid, the report continues,

receives a message from deputy Arzuaga: "Let's see, I have the minutes of the meeting that Joseba Azkarraga had" / "Do I say it here openly?"

/ "Or should I let you know in a more discreet way?"

answers: "In a discreet way better."

"Dear Julian"

The report includes a message from the head of Penitentiary Institutions to the Bildu deputy.

"Dear Julen," it begins, "on Friday, February 22, this General Secretariat has agreed to send the individualized program to the Prison Surveillance Court [....] As soon as it is approved by the court, inmate

will be transferred to the Donostia-San Sebastián Hospital. I take this opportunity to send you a cordial greeting. Ángel Luis Ortiz González".

The message is known because Arzuaga forwarded it to

.

The report also includes that in May 2019 the deputy from Bildu shared with

and the rest of the group the draft of a message of "thanks" to Ortiz for the progression of ETA member

, along with the request that shortly comes closer to the Basque Country.

deputy

asks the rest of the group for their approval for the message, and he obtains it.

The message sent closes as follows: "Perhaps the electoral environment is not the most ideal, but we would value the Orbe movement very positively, in the logic of other movements that you have already carried out."

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