He points to the heads of the terrorist gang ‘Iaki de Rentera’, ‘Mikel Antza’, ‘Anboto’ and ‘Kantauri’ and puts them on the brink of prosecution
It is possible that it is the kidnapping of Miguel Ángel Blanco that ends up allowing the sentence for his subsequent murder. This is clear from the report that the National Police has delivered to the National Court and that the judge investigating the case was keeping to decide on the prosecution of the four top leaders of ETA in July 1997, when the gang kidnapped the PP councilor. in Ermua.
The 160-page document directly points to the four accused leaders: Ignacio Grace Arregui, Iaki de Rentera; Mikel Albisu, Looks like Mikel; Jose Javier Arizcuren Ruiz, Cantauri; y Soledad Iparraguirre, Anboto. In line with the report that the Civil Guard has already presented in court, the Police inform the magistrate Manuel Garcia Castelln that they were the most responsible for the three apparatuses of the ETA leadership: military, political and logistical.
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The murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco, the three days that shocked Spain
The murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco, the three days that shocked Spain
The investigators maintain that, from those positions, they had the ability to decide on the specific execution of a terrorist action. Moreover, in the case of trying to attack special objectives, the ETA leadership had to give its authorization, they explain in the report provided to the case reopened as a result of a complaint of Dignity and Justice.
In their conclusions, the Police added that they had it in their power to prevent the murder during the three days of kidnapping. The members of the Executive Committee of ETA had the capacity and the means to have ordered the cessation of captivity and the avoidance of his murder, just as they assumed from the outset his kidnapping and the responsibility for his death in a subsequent statement. They were able to avoid it simply by giving an order to the command that was holding him. They were in a situation of full awareness of their position of command and having full control over the actions of their armed commandos, in this case Donosti, and could have prevented their assassination, he reiterates.
The insistence is justified because that peculiarity of the previous kidnapping is what in its day served to condemn the most responsible of the Grapo for the kidnapping and death of Publius Cordon. In the usual attacks, justice has been very restrictive and has demanded a specific link with the attack, without the mere hierarchical position in the gang being enough.
The report comes a few weeks from a relevant decision. The court reviewing the investigation of the case refused to consider the facts prescribed with respect to Iaki de Rentera, despite the fact that the lawsuit against him was filed 24 years after the murder, exceeding the 20-year term then in force. The Chamber maintained that there are other possible interpretations on how to compute that term and estimated that the decision should be left to the court in charge of holding the trial.
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Yesterday the Board of Public Prosecutors addressed its position on the statute of limitations. The consultation was included by the attorney general, Alvaro Garcia Ortiz, although tax sources explain that nothing was strictly discussed or submitted to the criteria of the highest-ranking prosecutors. The question is uncomfortable for the attorney general, who, being head of the Technical Secretariat, gave instructions to the chief prosecutor of the Audiencia, Jess Alonso, to consider the prescribed cause. That resulted in the prosecutor Vicente Gonzlez Mota I gave up taking the matter.
By tangentially tackling this issue, prosecutors intervened consolation madrigal, Javier Zaragoza y Francisco Jimenez Villarejo. Madrigal put on the table that a query had not been raised to the Board, since it was not asked to set a position on a legal issue or raise any doubts. Zaragoza defended the work of González Mota and highlighted that the attorney general had rectified his criteria from last July until now. As for Jimnez Villarejo, he criticized the order that refused to declare the prescription. Finally, the attorney general intervened, admitting that there are disparate legal positions and now advocates waiting for the appropriate procedural phase to establish a criterion on the prescription.
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