• Interior Marlaska politically defends the rapprochement of ETA because the dispersion was for when ETA "murdered"
  • Internal Terrorism transfers seven other ETA to prisons in the Basque Country, including one sentenced to 1,040 years for the attack on the T4 of Barajas

The Ministry of the Interior has completed the approach of all ETA prisoners to the Basque Country and Navarre, ending five years later the dispersion of ETA by prisons in Spain, once this Friday has authorized the transfer of Irantzu Gallastegi Sodupe, Amaia, and four other ETA members.

As reported by Penitentiary Institutions, among the approaches approved to go to prisons in the Basque Country is Irantzu Gallastegi Sodupe, alias Amaia, partner of Francisco Javier García Gaztelu, Txapote, one of the former leaders of ETA with the highest number of crimes. The two are serving sentences for the murder of PP councilman Miguel Ángel Blanco, among other attacks.

The other four ETA members for whom the rapprochement has been approved are Gregorio Escudero Balerdi, Asier Borrero Toribio, Garikoitz Etxeberria Goikoetxea and Faustino Marcos Álvarez.

In this way, Natividad Jáuregui, is the only ETA of the 176 imprisoned in Spain who has not been transferred, since after her extradition from Belgium she maintains a pending case and is in preventive detention in Madrid. Another ETA, Jon Gurtubay, was released a few days ago after serving his sentence.

The approaches of prisoners began in 2018, with the arrival of Pedro Sánchez to the Government and the appointment of Fernando Grande-Marlaska as Minister of the Interior, who maintains that what has been done is to comply with prison legislation once ETA is defeated.

Currently, according to data from the Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT), there are 164 convicted for their links with ETA terrorism in prisons in the Basque Country and another 11 in Navarra.

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  • ETA
  • Navarre
  • Fernando Grande-Marlaska
  • Pedro Sanchez
  • Belgium
  • PP
  • Ministry of the Interior
  • Terrorism