By Monica Uriel MADRID, 10 (ANSA) – A judge today opened an investigation into the dome of the Basque armed separatist group ETA crime against humanity since 2004, when entered into force in Spain this offense, until today.
Judge Juan Pablo Gonzalez of the National Court, the actions of the leaders of ETA “would be part of an attack widespread or systematic attack against the civilian population or part of it, which is the element that makes them crimes against humanity “, framed in a pursuit of political or ideological.
The judge argued that the crimes” committed as part of a systematic attack against part of the civilian population, made up of groups who are persecuted for political and ideological reasons, the elimination or expulsion through coercion or terror are considered by the strategically necessary organization to achieve its political objectives. “
The magistrate directed the case against” members of successive ETA domes with decision-making powers over such crimes “, ie, those who” had assumed the overall direction and decision-making responsibilities, with perfect mastery of the organization. ” The judge’s decision could lead to a retrial ETA leaders for crimes against humanity, which are punishable by between 20 and 30 years in prison. A total of 12 murders, committed by ETA since October 1, 2004, entered into force when this offense could be prosecuted as crimes against humanity.
The latest attack perpetrated in Spain in 2009 Mallorca, where two Civil Guard officers were killed.
In France the last fatality occurred in 2010, when it killed a French police. These three victims killed two Ecuadorian citizens unite in a car park at Barajas airport in 2006 by the explosion of a car bomb, two agents of the Civil Guard killed in France in 2007, a former Basque Socialist councilor murdered in 2008, the same year that killed an officer of the Civil Guard in the Basque Country.
also assassinated in a military murdered businessman Cantabria and the Basque Country, both in 2008, and a policeman in the Basque Country died a year next. The judge opened the investigation to support the complaints filed, among others, Association for the Dignity and Justice, headed by the son of Luis Portero, prosecutor killed by ETA in 2000.
The judge rejected the request to pursue ETA leaders for genocide, to understand that this crime requires that the identifier element of the group is to exterminate “is precisely the nationality, ethnicity, race or religion”.
The judge notes that ” different groups of victims of ETA can not be considered national or part of a national group, as in the Basque country, victims and perpetrators share the same national identity and are as Spanish as each other. “The judge
It was rather a persecution “of political and ideological” and among his victims military, police, politicians and “there are people, though to a lesser extent, near the Basque nationalism” are. Since its inception in 1968 ETA killed 829 people (486 military and 343 civilians).
In 2011 ETA announced “the definitive cessation of its armed activity”. UR / MAR
10.07.2015 20:44
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