2024-05-08 11:51:16
November 2000. The ‘Totto’ commando of the terrorist organization ETA places an explosive device – weighing more than 10 kilos – in a planter located on the sill of one of the windows of the living room-dining room of a home in the town of Cintruéñigo (Navarra) with the aim of causing the death of a member of the Civil Guard.
The person who led that command was Javier García Gaztelu, better known as ‘Txapote‘. According to the judge, he could have been the one who gave the order since he “issued guidelines, set objectives and provided the necessary material for carrying out attacks” by the command.
The attack did not take place due to a break in the device’s cables; the Civil Guard later deactivated it. If it had exploded, according to the investigation, this charge would have caused the death “of all the people who were in the house”, that is, the woman and the child who lived in the house at that time, since the agent who was looking for the terrorist group had not even resided at that address since 1996.
Furthermore, this device would have caused practically the complete destruction of “the side and rear facades of the house” as well as the front facade.
Today in the trial several civil guards and ertzaintzas have testified, but ‘Txapote’ has refused to testify or answer questions. The former leader of ETA has only intervened to express that refusal in Basque.
After the trial was held and ‘Txapote’ refused to testify, the trial has been heard for sentencing.
A protected witness declares that her dog “saved their lives”
Yesterday, the woman who lived in the residence where the explosive device was installed declared as a protected witness. In her testimony, the woman explained that it was her dog that “saved their lives” since days before the bomb was detected she heard her “barking exaggeratedly”, something that was unusual and that, apparently, those barking were directed to the ETA members who went to his house to plant the explosive.
Others involved
In addition to the former leader of ETA, ‘Txapote’, from whom the prosecution is asking for 54 years and six months in prison – the highest penalty when attributing the crime of ‘author by induction’ – the former members of the group also sit on the bench. terrorist organization Asier Arzallus Goñi and Aitor Aguirrebarrena Beldarrain, known as “Santi” and “Peio”. For these two members of the criminal gang, who today have not responded to the questions although they have acknowledged the facts, the Public Ministry requests 52 years in prison.
Ignacio Guridi Lasa also belonged to the same ‘Totto’ command, convicted of murdering two civil guards and a journalist and who yesterday denied that ‘Txapote’ ordered the placement of the ‘planter bomb’. Something that was refuted by the ertzaina who took a statement from Guridi Lasa after his arrest.
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