Madrid. AFP. The Spanish Justice opened an investigation against ETA for a crime against humanity, an unprecedented decision, but qualified this Friday “symbolic” in a time when the Basque separatist organization has spent nearly four years without armed activity.
In a decision released Friday, a judge of the Audiencia Nacional, the main Spanish criminal court, he declared admissible the complaints filed by several associations of victims of “crimes of murder or kidnapping that may have committed by members of the terrorist organization ETA since 1 October 2004 “, the date of entry into force of that figure in the Spanish Penal Code.
The magistrate Juan Pablo Gonzalez believes that ETA’s actions can be framed within the crimes against humanity that include the offenses of murder or forcible transfer, when committed “as part of a widespread or systematic attack against the civilian population or part of it, and this the element that makes them crimes against humanity “.
Danger. Classified as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union, ETA is held responsible for 829 deaths in 40 years of attacks by the Basque independence. In October 2011, he announced the definitive cessation of its armed activity, but is undissolved or surrender their weapons, despite the demands of Spain and France.
Judge Gonzalez dismissed without But investigate ETA leaders for crimes of “genocide” as requested by victims’ associations.
“The essential difference between crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide is limited of the persecuted groups and especially the requirement of intent or purpose to destroy in part or group entirely, “he said.
Less than a dozen deaths to armed separatist organization Basque attributed since 2004. In that time their attacks mainly caused injuries and property damage.
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