Fernando Lazaro Madrid
Madrid
Updated Sunday, April 7, 2024-02:16
The terrorist organization ETA had a computerized database with important security measures in which there was information on more than 15,000 targets. This is stated in a recent report prepared by the information service of the Civil Guard and which has been sent to the National Court to be incorporated into the proceedings for the murder of the Durango PP councilor
Jesús María Pedrosa.
The open case tries to clarify the connection of those responsible for the ETA plot in the attacks, as direct perpetrators of the murders. Procedures such as the
Pedrosa
crime were initiated by a complaint from the
Dignity
and
Justice
association , chaired by
Daniel Portero
.
The report by the
Civil Guard
specialists details that in the database, defined in ETA's internal documentation as DGZ, "acronym corresponding to Data
Gune Zentrala
(Central Data Base)", data appeared on 3,760 politicians of the PP, 1,060 from the PSOE, 1,843 businessmen, 766 members of the National Police Corps, 919 from the Armed Forces, 733 civil guards, 899 from the world of the judiciary, 483 from the media, among others.
The list also contains information on 157 representatives of the
PNV
. The list intervened in various operations against ETA also includes lawyers, members of the aristocracy, members of the
Royal House, the CNI,
200
ertzainas
, bodyguards, writers, former
ETA militants, prosecutors, members of the
Ermua
Forum
, officials, a representative of "the Church", 350 officials from Prisons,
Mossos d'Esquadra
, etc.
One of the lists of targets was seized on the former number one of ETA's political apparatus,
Mikel Albizu, Mikel Antza
, during his arrest in France in which his partner,
María Soledad Iparraguirre
,
Anboto,
was also captured . Both were part of the management structure of ETA and both are being investigated in the summary for the murder of
Pedrosa
. The perpetrators of the attack have not been convicted because it is presumed that they were members of the Vizcaya commando, who died when the bomb with which they were going to commit an attack in the Bilbao neighborhood of
Bolueta
exploded .
According to the Civil Guard, the DGZ "is the file to which different apparatuses and structures of the terrorist organization resorted when they needed information about potential targets against which to direct terrorist activity or extortion." And it was managed and managed by the
ETA
leadership .
The main purpose of this database would be to facilitate the work of its structures and militants when compiling and selecting information on certain objectives and, in addition, to provide the greatest security to the data and sensitive documents available in the possession of ETA. "The heads of ETA themselves realized the great loss that the amount of internal paper documents that were seized in the different police operations meant for the organization," emphasizes the report to which EL MUNDO has had access.
With new technologies, in addition to having all the information centralized, it was able to "implement computer programs" to protect its security.
During the ETA trap truce of 1998/99, the ETA leadership took the opportunity to launch "a new strategy of action indoctrinating its militants regarding the importance of using the DGZ database."
At that time, the leadership of the terrorist group was made up of
Mikel Antza and Anboto
in the political apparatus;
José Javier Arizkuren, Kantauri, Javier García Gaztelu, Txapote; Juan Antonio Olarra
and
Ainhoa Mugica
in the military apparatus; and
Ignacio de Gracia Arregi,
Iñaki de Rentería
, as responsible for the logistical framework.
All the leaders are being investigated in different courts of the
National Court
for their responsibility in the murders committed under their mandate in ETA, including that of Pedrosa.
Such was the importance that ETA gave to the structure that managed the general database that it had "a monthly budget of 19,000 euros, which meant around 40% of the total money of ETA's military apparatus," notes the letter from the Civil Guard.
The agents conclude that "there is a single
Central Database
in which all the data held by ETA would be included and that this database would be found exclusively in the possession of the leaders of ETA."
Within the general base there were two divisions. The first, called "DGZ
Lanerako
(for work)", was a database "used by the organization itself to collect different updates regarding information on objectives."
The other division would be "DGZ Gezi", which would contain "all the data about the revolutionary tax requests by the terrorist organization, data on businessmen and companies, economic situation, photos...".
The
Civil Guard
concludes that the general database was managed by the ETA management, which provided information to the commands only on the targets it was going to attack and not the entire database.
Thus, the report states that "during the period in which the attack against Pedrosa occurred, the commandos, before entering Spain, received from their managers in France, among other things, a computer or money for its purchase, a database data with information about their objectives.
The card told the ending: "Killed in action when leaving the batzoki"
In ETA's general database not only did all the information appear to precisely locate the 'popular' councilor of Durango Jesús María Pedrosa, but the end of his action was also included: the murder of the mayor. “This is an updated file,” indicates the report that details what appeared in your file: “Other personal data. 06/04/00 killed in action leaving Batzoki and returning home. He was a member of ELA ». It was explained that the councilor left his usual residence but that his daughters stayed there.
ETA also learned that Pedrosa had had a police escort until the false truce occurred, when it was withdrawn. When ETA returned to the crimes, they offered to restore his protection and, as the murdered man's own wife stated, Pedrosa rejected it because he did not believe he was threatened in the area around his town.
In this report, the Civil Guard breaks down the campaign of harassment that the PP councilor had suffered, within ETA's strategy of "socializing suffering."
«This type of harassment that he suffered in recent years due to his membership in the PP translated into a series of continuous threats of a humiliating nature that, in a veiled and in some cases mocking manner, subtly warned him that he could be a victim at any time of a action".
Calls to his home insulting him, mailings to his house with threats, rallies in support of ETA in front of his house, attempted assaults on his home, posters and pamphlets in front of his home against him and against his political militancy, threatening graffiti...