Investment charter Pedro Sanchez With EH Bildu exists after eight years. party Arnaldo Otegi He called for making prison policy with ETA prisoners more flexible. Promise kept by the government: more than 54% of … Prison sources told ABC that ETA members left prisons during the period of the socialist parliaments.
Farm Yes Farm No This is the controversy that has taken place in recent days. The government and Otegi deny that this meeting took place. Koldo and Abalos They assert that it was implemented with the aim of Pedro Sánchez becoming president in 2018 thanks to the censure motion against Mariano Rajoy.
The PSOE party’s talks with EH Bildu were held in two stages: the 2018 censure motion and the 2020 inauguration. The main demand for the formation of Otegi was ETA prisoners approach To Basque prisons and transfer to the third level of imprisonment or release for those who have served more than two-thirds of their sentence.
The person chosen to do this performance was him Angel Luis OrtizSecretary General of Prison Institutions since June 2018. A professional with a long career, his appointment was celebrated for his technical profile.
ETA prisoners
Instead of prisons
In Spain (except
Basque Country and Navarre)
In France (except
French Basque Country)
In other European Union countries
In the Basque Country, Navarra
And the French Basque Country
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ETA prisoners according to the prison website
In Spain (except the Basque Country and Navarra)
In France (except the French Basque Country)
In other European Union countries
In the Basque Country, Navarre and the French Basque Country
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/ABC Figures compiled by ABC confirm the trend spoiled by Sánchez’s agreement with Otegui’s party. In 2018, the total number of ETA prisoners reached 265. Of them, only 7 were in prisons in the Basque Country and Navarre. However, as of today, only 121 ETA members remain in prison: 117 of them in ETA prisons.
Basque Country and Navarra
And 4 in France. There are no longer any ETA prisoners in other prisons in Spain. In this period, Pedro Sanchez and Angel Luis Ortiz decided to reduce the number of ETA prisoners by 54.34%, thus complying with the demands of the Philippine National Party and Beldo. Regarding the prisoner approach, the large number of transfers that occurred in 2022 stands out, with the number of Basque and Navarese prisoners rising from 72 ETA prisoners in 2021 to 153 a year later. This increase is not a coincidence at all, because it occurred after the government agreed to transfer responsibility for the management of Basque prisons to the regional executive, on October 1, 2021. the
Dispersal of prisoners The ETA was officially terminated on March 24, 2023. On that day, it was announced that Iranzo Galastegui Sudup, also known as Amaya, would be transferred and convicted, among other reasons, of the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco. The other four prisoners whose approach was approved that day were captive Borrero Toribio (sentenced to six years’ imprisonment on charges of possession, manufacture and placement of explosives), Faustino Marcos Alvarez (sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment on charges of belonging to an armed gang and possession of weapons), Gregorio Escudero Balerde (sentenced to a cumulative imprisonment of 30 years on charges of murder, manslaughter and sabotage) and Garicuetz Etxperia. (The sentence is 20 years on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization and storing explosives).The last ETA prisoner will remain in a Spanish prison outside Navarra and the Basque Country in 2023.
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also known as Pepona, extradited by Belgium in 2020 after nearly four decades on the run and accused of murdering Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Romeo in 1981, was released in November of that year after serving the term for the crime. The Director of Prisons and the Koldo case The role of Ángel Luis Ortiz in the context of the Koldo case has also been called into question. the
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The Civil Guard employee asked the penal institutions for detailed information about the visits that Cerdan receives, including who pays them and when, although there was no interest in their content. Initially, prison institutions agreed to this request.
However, after a letter from Supreme Court Justice Leopoldo Puente, in which he indicated that no decision had been issued on this request, Ángel Luis Ortiz canceled cooperation with the UCO and stopped reporting on visits to Cerdán. Faced with this maneuver by the Secretary General of the Penitentiary Institutions to obstruct the Civil Guard investigations, the People’s Party demanded his resignation. In the same way, they also announced that the head of the Spanish prisons would be summoned to the Senate Investigation Committee.