The National Court sentences 'Txapote' to 52 years in jail for a annoyed assault in Navarra | EUROtoday

The National Court (AN) has sentenced the previous head of ETA to 52 years in jail Francisco Javier Garca Castlealias tchapoteand the previous members of the terrorist group Asier Arzalluz, Santiy Atitor Aguirrebar's, peiofor the location in 2000 of a planter bomb that didn’t explode in a house in Cintrunigo (Navarra) the place they imagine a civil guard lives.

In a ruling, reported by Europa Press, the Criminal Court sentences the accused to 38 years in jail for 2 crimes of tried terrorist homicide and one other 14 years for a criminal offense of tried terrorist destruction. This is similar sentence that was already imposed on the ETA member in one other trial. José Ignacio Guridi Lasaliable for capturing a Santi' for him Ttotto command.

The magistrates preserve that in November 2000, Santi‘ y peio They had been a part of the aforementioned command underneath the orders of tchapote. On an unspecified date, however near and previous to the ninth of that month, they positioned an explosive system in a planter positioned on the sill of one of many home windows of the living-dining room on the primary ground of a house positioned within the city of Cintrunigo.

The goal of stated motion, the ruling states, was to trigger the demise of a member of the Civil Guard who lived in that house, however who had already left the house in 1996 and at the moment it was occupied by a lady who didn’t belong to the safety forces and his minor son.

The system didn’t explode, the court docket assures, because of the interruption of {the electrical} fluid within the circuit, attributable to the breakage of the wiring conductors in a few of the connections of the system. Subsequently, on January 28, 2001, the system was discovered, and it was eliminated and deactivated by specialists from the GEDEX of the Civil Guard of Navarra.

The Chamber considers that there isn’t a doubt concerning the authorship of Arzalluz and Aguirrebarrena since they acknowledged their participation within the occasions at trial. tchapotehowever, refuses to declare, which the court docket considers as a denial of its implication.

Despite his silence on the oral listening to, the magistrates think about that there’s ample proof to convict tchapote as the one that commissioned the opposite defendants to hold out the terrorist motion.

Among this proof, the documentary proof intervened in different procedures and integrated into the case is of explicit relevance, explains the Chamber. On the one hand, the sings -internal communications to the band's management– written by Guridi Lasa himself, during which he recounted the entire band's actions. Ttotto command.

Likewise, the AN values ​​as proof the non-public agenda of tchapote intervened in France and despatched to the Spanish authorities, which has been analyzed by graphics specialists and so they have decided definitely that he’s the writer of the annotations that seem therein. In them, all from 2001 – as a result of they had been the one pages that remained – there are famous a complete of seven quotes that allude to the command.

Finally, the Chamber refers back to the stories issued on this process – ratified by the Civil Guard – that present the judicial physique with data on the composition and assaults dedicated by the command, which they know of their recordsdata on account of their expertise within the matter. of terrorism and that interrelate with the information of the precise case.

The identical 'mode of operation'

In them, the specialists spotlight a repetition of the mode of operation utilized by the command in different assaults, and on the head of which they place tchapote. A conclusion, the ruling factors out, which they attain by relating all the information within the case, and which “the court also reaches with the joint examination of the evidence presented.”

In this case, it takes on “special relevance to consider the participation of García Gaztelu in the Cintrunigo attack to be accredited, fundamentally the documentary evidence, the sings of Guridi and the personal agenda of García Gaztelu himself, which together with the other corroborating data provided by the testimonial and expert statements, lead us to a well-founded conviction of its author in these facts, if not material by induction.

The Chamber highlights, finally, “the sudden placement of the explosive system, its lethal potential, the unexpectedness for the victims of being the goal of the terrorist group that claimed it, and whose parts had already positioned comparable explosive units beforehand that not solely exploded, however ended different folks's lives.

All of this, the sentence provides, reveals “the lethal capacity and aptitude of the means used to do so and the intention pursued by its authors, aware at all times of what they were doing and pursuing, assuming the more than probable deadly results.”