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Soledad Iparraguirre Anboto,

one of the few women who reached the leadership of ETA and has been sentenced to 400 years in prison, is in charge of making the coffees for prisoners and officials in the women's module of the

Zaballa prison.

Anboto, like the rest of the fifty prisoners of the Alava prison gang, is serving his sentence in a respect module, enjoys a salary paid by the Basque Government and, like the rest of the gang's leaders already imprisoned in Basque prisons, he hopes that Arnaldo Otegi will keep his word and get the governments of Sánchez and Urkullu to speed up his release.

A policy of accelerated reinsertion of the ETA members that, after the transfers announced this Wednesday by the Ministry of the Interior, outrages the groups of ETA victims.

The former leaders of ETA 'Txapote' and

Mobutu

and the gunman

Henri Parot

will settle in the next few days in the Basque prisons that the Government of Iñigo Urkullu has been managing since October 1.

Among the hundred members of the gang already relocated to

Euskadi

are historical ETA chiefs such as

José María Dorronsoro

and

José María Arregi Erostarbe

'Fiti' who led the commandos of the terrorist gang in the 1980s, along with

Jon Olarra Guridi ,

another terrorist who, after participating in several attacks as a member of

the Donosti commando,

He became the head of the ETA commandos at the end of the last century.

Félix Alberto López de Lacalle

,

Mobutu,

and

Francisco Javier García Gaztelu,

Txapote

, will soon join the list of former ETA chiefs who rely on the so-called Basque prison model to go out on the streets .

Institutional representatives of the

abertzale

coalition such as the parliamentarian

Julen Arzuaga

and the deputy

Jon Iñárritu

meet periodically with ETA prisoners and with the directors of the Basque prisons to share the conditions of the benefits enjoyed by the prisoners of the gang.

Those convicted of terrorism not only enjoy the flexibility of respect modules (self-managed spaces without the physical presence of officials) but, according to prison sources, demand single-person cells and be included in paid occupations within the prison, such as the commissary in which Anboto distributes coffees and coca-colas.

In addition, ETA prisoners systematically enjoy extraordinary permits in which plainclothes officers from the

Ertzaitnza

transfer the inmates without being handcuffed and within a discretionary sphere in which any excuse facilitates their release from prison.

Prison officials also confirm that the Government of Urkullu is going to use the flexibility of article 100.2 to speed up the release of ETA members with longer sentences, arguing that they are rooted and willing to reintegrate, even if they do not regret their actions. crimes nor are they willing to collaborate with the Justice to clarify the 350 murders without an identified author.

Leading jurists have already warned of discretion in the application of this article used by the Generalitat with those convicted of the illegal independence referendum in

Catalonia.

Henri Parot, during a trial.EFE

Almost all the ETA leaders with long sentences for their responsibility in dozens of attacks are already in the three Basque prisons.

The only exceptions are

José Javier Arizkuren Ruiz, '

Kantauri';

Mikel Carrera

and

Garikoitz Azpiazu, '

Txeroki'.

Arizkuren Ruiz took over from 'Mobutu' in 1993 as head of the commandos and maintained control of the military apparatus until 1990. Carrera and 'Txeroki', imprisoned in the French prison of

Lannemezan

, were part of the ETA leadership that maintained the terrorist activity until the definitive ceasefire that was announced by the gang in October 2011. One of the three hooded men who read the statement was

David Pla,

former leader of ETA and today leader of

Sortu,

the party led by Arnaldo Otegi that controls the EH Bildu coalition.

"Today, again, the victims cry and the murderers celebrate," denounced this Wednesday

Marimar Blanco,

the sister of the Basque PP councilor Miguel Ángel Blanco, assassinated by García Gaztelu with two shots to the head in July 1997. 25 years and two months later, Marimar Blanco described as "unbearable the humiliation of the victims" involved in the transfer to the prisons of

the Basque Country

of her brother's murderer, along with the gunman Henri Parot and former ETA chiefs such as 'Mobutu'.

A feeling and complaint shared by other direct victims of these terrorists.

Daniel Portero,

president of

Dignity and Justice

and son of the prosecutor

Luis Portero

assassinated by the terrorist group, described the decision adopted by the Executive of Pedro Sánchez as a "new betrayal" of the victims.

Among the 13 members of the gang that will be transferred to Euskadi in the coming weeks is

Igor Solana

, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for participating in the murder of prosecutor Portero on October 9, 2000.

The

Association of Victims of Terrorism

(AVT) also denounced the "hammer blow" of these approaches demanded by Bildu and his entourage.

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