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The morning at the National Court has been intense.

Those who were ETA leaders

Miguel Albisu Iriarte, 'Mikel Antza',

and

María Soledad Iparraguirre, 'Anboto', were summoned to testify as under investigation.

Both have refused to give a statement after accusing the National Court, through the mouth of their lawyers, of acting out of revenge.

The instructor,

Manuel García Castellón

, in charge of investigating the murder of the Popular Party councilor in

Ermua

, Miguel Ángel Blanco, has agreed to ban the one who was

number one

in the terrorist organization when the slow-motion crime of the mayor was perpetrated to leave

Spain.

As requested by the accusation of Liberty and Justice, the instructor has also agreed that the terrorist leader hand over his passport and appear every 15 days in the court closest to his home.

It was last March when Judge García Castellón agreed to reopen the investigation into the murder of the Popular Party councilor after admitting a complaint filed by the

Dignity and Justice Association

(DyJ).

In its brief, the association directed its accusation against the nine leaders of the gang at the time of the events:

Ignacio Miguel Gracia Arregui, alias 'Iñaki de Rentería';

José Javier Arizcuren, alias 'Kantauri';

María Soledad Iparraguirre, alias 'Anboto';

Juan Carlos Iglesias Chouzas, alias 'Gaddafi';

Mikel Albisu, alias 'Mikel Antza';

and Asier Oyarzabal, alias 'Baltza'.

It should be remembered that, in the case of Blanco's murder, the First Criminal Section of the National Court already sentenced in 2006 to 50 years in prison the former ETA leader

Francisco Javier García Gaztelu

, 'Txapote', and his sentimental partner and member of ETA

Irantzu Gallastegui Sodupe

, 'Amaia', as perpetrators.

In its sentence, the court assured that both "planned and executed the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco, following the guidelines of the ETA leadership, whose most immediate objectives were the kidnapping of a PP councilor to demand in exchange of his liberation the approach of the prisoners of the band to jails of the Basque Country».

approach of prisoners

While this statement was being made by the ETA leaders, a new movement was being carried out by the

Ministry of the Interior

in favor of the prisoners of the terrorist organization.

Specifically, he announced the approach of another nine prisoners of the terrorist organization to prisons in

the Basque Country.

This is

Ibai Ayensa Laborda,

who will be transferred from

Logroño

to the corresponding prison in the Basque Country.

He is serving a sentence of 31 years and 15 days for crimes of terrorist attack, illicit association, deposit of weapons, possession of explosives, attack against authority and injuries.

He was convicted of the murder of Army NCO

Francisco Casanova Vicente

in 2000 in

Navarra

and belonged to the Ekaitza commando, which in January 2001 attempted to assassinate Army Second Lieutenant

José Díez Pareja

in the Navarran town of

Cizur in January 2001.

Higher.

José Lorenzo Ayestarán Legorburu

will be transferred from the

Soria

prison to the corresponding prison in the Basque Country.

He entered prison on February 17, 2015 and is serving an accumulated sentence of 30 years for murders, attacks and the crime of illegitimate use of a motor vehicle.

He is convicted of more than a dozen murders, including that of the chief of

Miñones

-Alava police-, the chief of the Municipal Police of Vitoria and the three civil guards machine-gunned in the Salvatierra cycle race.

Another one that Interior has decided to bring from

Asturias

to the Basque Country is

Ainhoa ​​García Montero

, who is serving a 30-year sentence for murders and crimes of attack, weapons storage, possession of explosives and damages.

Eneko Gogeaskoetxea Arronategui

will be transferred from

El Dueso

(Cantabria) to the corresponding prison in the Basque Country.

He is also sentenced to an accumulated 30-year sentence for homicide, attempted murder, crime against the Crown and crimes of illegal detention, attack, havoc, coercion, injury, deposit and possession of weapons and forgery.

In the case of

Juan Carlos Iglesias Chouzas,

Gaddafi

, he will travel from

Dueñas

(Palencia) to the corresponding prison in the Basque Country.

He entered prison on July 1, 2003 and is serving an accumulated sentence of 30 years for murders, attacks and crimes of terrorism, havoc, weapons storage, illegal detention, robbery with violence, illegal use of a motor vehicle and injuries.

Among other murders,

Gaddafi

was convicted of the murder of the two-year-old boy

Fabio Parra,

who was killed with the sticky bomb that he placed in his father's car, because he was a civil guard.

Francisco Javier Makazaga Azurmendi

will also be approached from El Dueso (Cantabria) to the Basque Country ,

who is serving a sentence for murders, attacks and crimes of collaboration with an armed gang, illicit association, conspiracy to murder, extolling terrorism, havoc, forgery, robbery with violence, illegal detention, injuries, damages, possession and deposit of weapons.

He is sentenced to sentences totaling almost 400 years in prison for nine murders, including that of former Civil Governor of Guipúzcoa

Juan María Jáuregui Apalategui.

Ainhoa ​​Múgica Goñi

will be transferred from Logroño to the corresponding prison in the Basque Country.

She is serving an accumulated sentence of 30 years for murders and crimes of attack, havoc, injuries, possession of explosives and deposit of weapons.

He was part of the Madrid command which, among the actions they carried out, included the murders of the former president of the Constitutional Court,

Francisco Tomás y Valiente

(on February 14, 1996), of Army Lieutenant General

Jesús Cuesta (

on February 8, January 1997) and Supreme Court Justice

Rafael Martínez Emperador

(February 10, 1997).

She also the failed attack against the former Prime Minister José María Aznar, on April 20, 1995.

Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi

will be transferred from Logroño to the corresponding prison in the Basque Country.

He entered prison on July 26, 2010 and is serving an accumulated sentence of 30 years for murders, homicides and crimes of attack, terrorism, havoc and possession of explosives and arms deposit.

Sentenced to 1,243 years in prison for the murder of six workers from the Navy car park on December 11, 1995.

Gorka Palacios Alday

will be transferred from the Madrid VII Penitentiary Center (Estremera) to the corresponding penitentiary center in the Basque Country.

He entered prison on April 18, 2018 and is serving an accumulated sentence of 30 years for murders, attacks and havoc crimes, injuries, vehicle theft, weapons storage, possession of explosives, forgery and disobedience.

Juan Ramón Carasatorre Aldaz

will travel from the El Dueso Penitentiary Center (Cantabria) to the Pamplona Penitentiary Center.

He entered prison on November 28, 2013 and is serving an accumulated sentence of 30 years for murders and crimes of attack against authority and illegitimate use of a motor vehicle.

Among others, he is convicted of the murder of the PP leader of San Sebastián

Gregorio Ordóñez.

In addition

, Luis Mariñelarena Garciandia

will travel from the Dueñas Penitentiary Center (Palencia) to the

Pamplona Penitentiary Center.

He entered

prison on October 21, 2001 and is serving an accumulated sentence of 30 years for murders, attacks and crimes of illicit association, collaboration with an armed gang, illegal detention, havoc, possession and storage of weapons, vehicle theft and forgery.

He is sentenced, among other attacks, for the murder of the socialist politician

Fernando Buesa

and his escort.

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