Friday, March 29

Half of the ETA prisoners have already been taken to prisons in the Basque Country or in Pamplona


The Permanent Social Forum and the AVT have verified, in two reports made public coinciding with the start of 2022, that more than half of the ETA prisoners will already be in prisons in Zaballa (Álava), Basauri (Bizkaia), Martutene (Gipuzkoa) ) or Pamplona (Navarra) once the last seven transfers announced this week materialize. This summer, the authorized movements since the arrival of Pedro Sánchez to La Moncloa in 2018 already assumed that none were in centers further south of Madrid.

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In 2021, according to Europa Press, 143 approaches have been carried out, 49% of the 288 authorized since mid-2018. In the last twelve months, 70 have been approved for the transfer to the Basque Autonomous Community and another nine to the of Navarra. Always according to the AVT, in the outgoing year eight third degrees have been approved for ETA prisoners and another six have obtained conditional release. In general, 183 remain in Spain serving their sentences. 81 are in Euskadi -which in October received the Prison management competence- and 13 in Navarra, which adds up to 51% of the total. There are eight transfers agreed but not materialized.

It so happens that the seven approaches by ETA terrorists approved on December 30 are joined by two others from GRAPO. In addition, there have been ten final discharge for serving a sentence. They are Oier Andueza, Pedro María Leguina, Juan María Echevarría, Ignacio Arcama Mendía, Olatz Lasagabaster, Patxi Uranga, Andoni Murga, Aitor Fresnedo, Agustín Almaraz and Ignacio Etxeberria Martín.

Meanwhile, in a statement, the Permanent Social Forum has described this new approach as “positive”, although it has drawn attention to the “slow pace with which transfers are being applied in this phase.” “This stage, which all the parties involved consider to be transitory, cannot be a trickle and be subject to debates and permanent tension in the political debate in Madrid, but must be approached decisively, within a reasonable time and in a manner constant, “he added. In his opinion, it is “urgent and common sense” to overcome the aforementioned current transitory stage and that, in addition, it must be done “under the conditions mentioned above, which would allow the consolidation of the climate of trust that is needed in this matter.”

The Permanent Social Forum believes that advancing “decisively” towards the final stage of compliance for all prisoners in these prisons would allow “a comprehensive solution to the issue of prisoners to be faced in better conditions.” As he has pointed out, at this time, there are two “nuclear” debates, on the one hand, the “necessary overcoming of the exceptional legality that is imposed on these prisoners” and the application of ordinary legislation, with the consequent right to access. to ordinary exit permits, prison progression to the third degree and access to conditional release based on the individualized compliance that entitles them to do so.

Less ‘ongi etorri’ than ever

Secondly, it refers to the definition of a generalized reintegration plan that, piloted from public institutions and agreed with the different agents, including prisoners, allows the inmates to be accompanied “in their individual reintegration itinerary, both in the path of access to parole and subsequent social and labor reintegration “. Finally, he has appealed to all institutional, political and social agents with responsibility in this matter to “redouble their contributions, so that this issue so necessary for democratic coexistence finds a way of comprehensive resolution.”

For its part, the Collective of Victims of Terrorism (Covite) has documented a total of 282 acts of support to ETA throughout 2021 in its Radicalization Observatory, a space on the collective’s website where “all acts related to violent radicalization in the field of ETA terrorism “. Of the total number of events held, 53 took place in Navarra, 97 in Gipuzkoa, 94 in Bizkaia, 20 in Álava, 5 in Catalonia, 1 in Madrid, and 12 in Iparralde. According to the group in a press release, the number of acts of “explicit support for ETA and its terrorists” has increased by 46% compared to 2020, the year in which a total of 193 acts of support for ETA were registered. “However, Covite is pleased that the number of documented ‘ongi etorris’ to ETA prisoners has been the lowest since they started with the radicalization observatory, at the end of 2016, having only registered 5 ‘ongi etorris’ at the end of 2016. throughout 2021 “, they have underlined.





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