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The

General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions

, dependent on the

Ministry of the Interior

, has communicated the approach to prisons of the Basque Country of another eleven ETA prisoners, among those convicted of attacks such as the one in Santa Pola in which the girl Silvia Martínez died or the one perpetrated in the T-4 of the Madrid-Barajas airport.

One of the ETA prisoners transferred in this new batch is

Andoni Otegi Eraso

, who will leave the Logroño prison to go to another designated by the Basque Government, competent in the matter after the transfer of the central Executive.

He is one of the inmates of the terrorist group who has participated in confidential restorative meetings with victims.

He has been sentenced to more than a thousand years, according to the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT), for crimes such as the murder of UPN councilor

José Javier Múgica Astibia

in 2001 and the one committed against the Santa Pola barracks in 2002, which I ended the lives of

Cecilio Gallego Alaminos

and the girl Silvia Martínez Santiago.

The one in Santa Pola is one of the attacks that is still under investigation to identify the masterminds.

Recently a Civil Guard report named six former ETA chiefs and the National Court imposed precautionary measures on

Mikel Antza

and

Ramón Sagarzazu

,

Ramontxo

, for the death of this 57-year-old citizen and the six-year-old girl.

The minor, the daughter of a Civil Guard agent, was honored posthumously on September 29 with the medal of the

Dignity and Justice

association .

As the perpetrator of the car bomb in front of the Santa Pola barracks,

Andoni Otegi Eraso

,

Iosu

, and his commando partner

Óscar Celarain Ortiz

,

Peio

, were convicted .

Otegi Eraso entered prison on October 17, 2008 and is serving an accumulated sentence of 30 years for murder, attempted murder, havoc, weapons storage, robbery and forgery.

He will serve 3/4 parts of the sentence in April 2031, as reported by Penitentiary Institutions.

Attacks in Madrid and Andalusia

According to the body dependent on the Ministry of the Interior, another of the ETA members brought to the Basque Country -from the Dueñas prison- is

Martín Sarasola Oyarzabal

, convicted of the attack that cost the lives of Ecuadorian citizens

Diego Armado Estacio

and

Carlos Alonso Palate

for the car bomb in the T-4 of Madrid-Barajas in 2006.

Also included is

Harriet Iragui Gurruchaga

-currently in Logroño-, one of the terrorists who was sentenced for the sequence of ETA attacks that killed

José Martín Carpena

,

Luis Portero García

and

Antonio Muñoz Cariñanos

in Andalusia .

Asier Arzalluz Goñi

will leave Logroño prison to go to another in the Basque Country.

He is serving a sentence for killing the civil guards

Irene Fernández Perea

and

José Ángel de Jesús Encinas

, as well as for the murder of

Máximo Casado Carrera

and trying to kill the socialist deputy

Eduardo Madina

, a criminal action perpetrated by another of the ETA beneficiaries:

Iker Olabarrieta Colorado

.

Among the terrorists approached there is also

Julen Atxurra Egurola

, sentenced to 32 years for his participation in the kidnapping of

José Antonio Ortega Lara

or killing a police officer in 1986, as well as

Beñat Aguinagalde Ugartemendía

, in his case for the murders of

Isaías Carrasco

in 2008 and

Ignacio Uría

a year later.

The same happens with

Gurutz Aguirresarobe Pagola

, author of the attack that ended the life of

Joseba Pagazaurtundua

in 2003, or

Beatriz Etxebarría Caballero

, who is serving a sentence for the attacks against the

Luis Conde de la Cruz

brigade and the national police

Eduardo Antonio Puelles García

.

Among those brought to Basque prisons are also two terrorists handed over by France.

They are

Itziar Moreno Martínez

and

Iratxe Sorzabal

, the latter a former ETA leader in provisional prison sentenced for the double attack in 1996 in Gijón on a pharmacy and the Palace of Justice.

Interior has decided to transfer her while waiting for the sentence to be final.

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