The semi-freedom of the former ETA leader Soledad Iparraguirre, “Anboto” – who has outraged the victims – in application of the “100.2 route” still has to pass the filter of the central judge of Penitentiary Surveillance of the National Court, but the validity of the controversial measure is also threatened by other possible judicial decisions.
As reported by this newspaper, the former head of the terrorist group – who has spent 22 years in prison, 16 of them in France – has a pending judicial declaration for her alleged responsibility, as part of the ETA leadership at the time, in the car bomb attack against the Santa Pola barracks (Alicante) in 2002. A criminal action in which Cecilio Gallego, an early retiree from Telefónica, and the girl Silvia Martínez, six, were murdered. years.
“Anboto” is being investigated along with five other former members of the ETA executive committee after the complaint filed by Dignity and Justice (DyJ) in 2022. And her interrogation – like those of the also accused José Antonio Olarra Guridi, Ainhoa Múgica and Félix Esparza, the latter imprisoned in France) – is now only pending for the court headed by magistrate Antonio Piña to set the date based on its agenda of accusations. already agreed. A task that, by the way, is not easy because the instructor himself has already recently conveyed to the parties that the six vacancies of officials in his court condition the daily work.
Investigated at the National Court
This appearance can be seen precisely as a threat to maintaining the regime of semi-freedom enjoyed since last Tuesday by the former leader of the terrorist group, which is being investigated in half a dozen cases in the National Court for several murders, among others for the murder of Miguel Ángel Blanco. In all of them, for his alleged responsibility in the leadership of ETA in the attacks committed under the iron discipline of the Zuba that he was a member of.
As LA RAZÓN has learned, Dignidad y Justicia plans to request provisional detention for “Anboto” due to the seriousness of the crimes and penalties and the proximity of the trial. A measure that would also be requested by the private prosecution representing the family of the murdered minor and that would also foreseeably be supported by the Victims of Terrorism Association (AVT). All of this would lead Iparraguirre to a vigil in which the investigating judge would have the last word.
Supreme Court Decision
And if provisional detention is agreed upon, according to the legal sources consulted, the application of article 100.2 of the Penitentiary Regulations would automatically be void, and with it the regime of semi-freedom enjoyed by the former head of ETA.
Another judicial decision – pending for more than a year –, this one from the Supreme Court, may also condition these daily releases from prison for “Anboto” (who during the week only has to return to the San Sebastian prison of Martutene to sleep). The high court has to rule on the filing due to prescription of the investigation against Iparraguirre, Mikel Albisu, “Mikel Antza”, and Ignacio Gracia Arregi, “Iñaki de Rentería”.
If the Supreme Court rejected the statute of limitations, and given that “Anboto” and the rest of those investigated had already been prosecuted by the then judge of the National Court Manuel García Castellón, Iparraguirre would be on the bench. Although, in any case, it is unlikely that any accusation would demand his provisional detention for this reason, having not requested it until now in this case.
In the judicial case for the Santa Pola attack – in which “Mikel Antza” and Ramón Sagarzazu, “Ramontxu” – are already prosecuted, the instructor will agree in the near future to extend the investigation for another six months, as the accusations have already requested.
The victims complain that the application of the “100.2 route” represents a cathole through which covert third degrees sneak in without the need to demand repentance, forgiveness or collaboration with Justice from ETA prisoners.