Thursday, March 28

Euskadi grants the third degree to six ETA prisoners, with which it adds 23 semi-liberty regimes


The Basque Government has approved the progression to third degree prison for six ETA prisoners, adding up to 23 concessions of the prison regime semi-freedom to inmates of the terrorist organization.

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At the beginning of the month, the Autonomous Executive, which assumed responsibility for prisons on October 1 last year, granted five third degrees to prisoners Zigor Orbe, Santiago Vicente, Aitor Herrera, Igor Martínez de Osaba and Lierni Armendaritz.

Armendaritz was sentenced, among other crimes, for the murder of the former PSC minister and deputy, Ernest Lluch, when he was part of the ‘Barcelona command’. The dam also has other sentences of 34 years in prison for the crime of the PP councilor in Sant Adrià de Besòs José Luis Ruiz Casado; 47 years old as responsible for the murder of the member of the Barcelona Urban Guard Miguel Gervilla and 47 years old for the murder of the PP councilor of Viladecavalls Francisco Cano.

The Basque Government has also given the green light to the semi-liberty regime of Juan Carlos Subijana, condemned in 2010 by the National High Court as a collaborator in the attack that ended the life of prison official Máximo Casado Carrera on October 22, 2000.

The regional Executive and the treatment boards to approve the grade progressions take into account the detachment of the prisoners from the gang and their recognition of the pain caused, having rejected violence and accepted prison legality. These grade progressions are not the first measure of the new autonomous managers, since 160 ‘common’ prisoners changed their regime before those of ETA.

“These decisions are not political, they are made based on scrupulous scientific analysis and technical criteria by the experts from the treatment boards. They are not whims, a good part of the ETA prisoners who are arriving in Euskadi meet or are about to meet the requirements for grade progression”, indicated the Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policies, Beatriz Artolazabal, a few months ago, referring to to the previously approved progressions, in statements collected by ‘El Correo’.



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