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The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, and his head of Prisons,

Ángel Luis Ortiz

, have reactivated their approach of ETA prisoners to prisons in

the Basque Country

.

On this occasion, the General Secretariat of

Penitentiary Institutions

coordinates with the Department of Justice of the Basque Government the transfer of seven convicted of terrorism to the Basque Country.

Another one will be brought to the Navarra

prison

.

According to the Department of Marlaska, the action has been coordinated between its Prisons area and the Department of Equality, Justice and Social Policies of the Basque Government, "within the scope of the powers of each administration."

These new transfers take place just 10 days after the victims of terrorism took to the streets to denounce the dynamics of Grande-Marlaska and his head of Prisons with the ETA prisoners.

On this occasion, Interior announces the transfer of

Juan Luis Aguirre Lete from the

Soria

Penitentiary Center

"to the corresponding penitentiary center in the Basque Country", it explains in an official note.

Aguirre Lete is convicted of being responsible for the ETA commandos, and also for the murders of the socialist leader

Fernando Múgica

and General

Dionisio Herrero

.

The State Security Forces link him to the attempted assassination of Prime Minister José María Aznar.

He was the one who gave the green light to the kidnapping of prison official

José Antonio Ortega Lara

.

Iván Apaolaza Sancho

will be transferred from the

Logroño

prison to a prison in the Basque Country that has yet to be determined.

He was sentenced to 123 years in prison for his participation in the car bomb attack in which Lieutenant Colonel

Pedro Antonio Blanco García

died , committed in Madrid on January 21, 2000.

Álvaro Juan Arri Pascual

will be transferred from

Burgos

prison to the Basque Country.

He is sentenced to a sentence of 208 years for participating in the attack committed on July 29, 1994 in the Plaza Ramales in Madrid in which three people died.

Garikoitz Arruarte Santa Cruz

is one of those convicted by the National High Court for the frustrated attack on Christmas Eve 2003 by placing two suitcase bombs on a train leaving

Irún (Guipúzcoa)

that day and arriving in Madrid.

He will be transferred from Pamplona to the Basque Country.

Mikel Azurmendi Peñagaricano

, convicted of the crime of the PP councilor in the Seville City Council

Alberto Jiménez Becerril

and his wife

Ascensión García

, will be transferred from the El Dueso Penitentiary Center

(Cantabria)

to the Basque Country.

For his part, J

on González González

will also be approached from Pamplona to the Basque Country, to a prison yet to be determined.

He is convicted of attacking the former deputy mayor of Portugalete (Vizcaya)

Esther Cabezudo

(PSE), to whom he placed an explosive device in a shopping cart in 2002.

Idoia Mendizabal Múgica

is a partner of the previous one.

She will also be transferred from Pamplona to the Basque Country.

She is credited with placing a sticky bomb under the car of Eduardo Madina, who lost a leg.

That happened in 2002, when the latter was a member of the Socialist Youth.

In turn, Mendizabal also tried to assassinate the Antena 3 delegate in the Basque Country,

María Luis Guerrero

.

The General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions has also resolved the transfer of another inmate related to the terrorist group ETA.

José Luis Barrios Martín

, also convicted of participating in the double crime of the Sevillian couple Alberto Jiménez Becerril and his wife, will be transferred from the Zuera prison (Zaragoza) to the

Pamplona

Penitentiary Center .

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