The Spanish government recognized the members of ETA, Juan Paredes Manot, “Txiki” and Ángel Otaegi, shot at the end of the Franco regime, as victims for not having benefited from a fair trial and overturned their convictions after declaring the War Council ‘illegal’ to which they were submitted, according to official documents to which Europa Press had access.
The families of Txiki and Otaegi They asked for compensationat the beginning of this year, before the Delegation of the Government of the Basque Country based on the Democratic Memory Law.
In response, the Spanish Executive approved, on November 25, two declarations of recognition and personal reparation in favor of Paredes Manot and Otaegi, by which Their status as victims is recognized, because they did not benefit from a fair trial, and the convictions are overturned.
Repair documents
The Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres, delivered the letters of reparation to their families. for “persecution and violence suffered for political reasons”“, ideological and conscientious during the dictatorship” of Franco, and in recognition of their status as “victims” for having been violated, in their case, “the most fundamental requirements of the right to a fair trial”.
It also refers to the agreement of “intimidation and helplessness in its process”, as established by Law 20/2022 of October 19 of Democratic Memory, which recognizes and declares “the illegality and illegitimacy of the War Council which judged them”.
In this way, “recognizes and declares illegitimate and void, for defects in form and substance”, the resolutions of the Franco regime which “dictated and which resulted in its execution”.
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