Thirteen ETA prisoners were transferred to prisons located in the Basque Country, at the end of August, responding to a long -standing request from nationalist parties.
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Without official announcement or change of prisoners’ regime, but with a clear political will on the part of the Spanish left government, little by little, prisoners of the former Basque terrorist group ETA are close in penitentiary establishments in the country Basque and Navarre. If, before, only the repentants and the prisoners without crimes of blood were concerned, these movements now take place massively in Spain. On August 31, the department of penitentiary institutions, depending on the Ministry of the Interior, thus validated the transfer of 13 prisoners Etarras to the Basque Country, among which appear two of the former bloodthirsty leaders of the separatist organization.
Francisco Javier Garcia Gazélu, alias TXAPote, imprisoned since 2005, was sentenced to thirty years’ imprisonment for a dozen assassinations, including those of elected conservatives Miguel Angel Blanco in 1997 and Gregorio Ordoñez in 1995, and the socialists Fernando BUESA (2000) and Fernando Mugica (1996). The Frenchman Henri Parot, sentenced to forty -one years in prison for 39 assassinations and twenty attacks that have made nearly 200 victims, has been imprisoned since 1990. Among the 11 other detainees transferred to the Basque Country are other activists ” historical “, like Jon Bienzobas or Félix Alberto Lopez de la Calle Gauna, alias Mobutu.
eleven years after the end of armed activity and four years after the dissolution of ETA, the latter transfer has brought the number of prisoners close to the Basque Country and Navarre since the arrival of the socialist Pedro Sanchez to the arrival. Power, in 2018. In 2011, when ETA announced the end of its armed activity, Spain had nearly 600 Etarras prisoners. There are 145, including a hundred in the Basque Country and in Navarre. The others are detained elsewhere in the country, mostly less than 200 kilometers from the Basque Country. In the summer of 2021, the last to be imprisoned in Andalusia – a region traditionally distant for the hardest – were compared, and only three of these prisoners left in Madrid. In addition, 17 people are incarcerated in France.
In fact, Spain thus consolidates the end of the dispersion policy, implemented in 1989 by the socialist government of Felipe Gonzalez within the framework of its anti -terrorist policy. The end of this exceptional regime is long claimed by the Basque nationalist parties, who consider it punishment for families. These, grouped within associations and Sares, still regularly organize demonstrations for bringing prisoners together.
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