The Armed Institute is committed to prioritizing this task “as much as possible”
MADRID, 4 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Civil Guard has responded to the judge of the National Court (AN) Alejandro Abascal that the delay in the preparation of the report that he commissioned on June 20 on the attack perpetrated by ETA on May 30, 2003 in the Navarran city of Sangüesa , which ended the lives of two policemen, is due to the large amount of documentation to be analysed, although he has assured that he will try to prioritize this task.
“For the preparation of the requested report, it is necessary to consult and analyze numerous files, a task that is being carried out, but which has prevented prompt attention to the aforementioned judicial request for the time being,” the Benemérita explains in a letter to which she has had access Europa Press.
At the same time, the Armed Institute takes the opportunity to convey to the person in charge of the Central Court of Instruction Number 1 that his request “will try to prioritize everything possible in order to proceed to its prompt completion.”
Abascal had requested both the Civil Guard and the National Police to give him an account of the status of the required reports, thus responding to a request made by the Dignity and Justice Association (DyJ), which demanded a “procedural impulse”.
In his letter, DyJ was aware of “the great workload and the commendable effort on the part” of the National Police and the Civil Guard, but drew attention to the fact that for this crime there is no one “convicted to death.” date”, “neither as material author nor as mediate author”.
“This part understands that we are here before a particularly sensitive case, in which the two fatalities and their families have been left in a particularly serious situation of total sustained impunity for 19 years,” he stressed.
Along the same lines, he highlighted that these are “two of the 379 completely unpunished cases of ETA that have been recognized by the European Parliament in its recent resolution.”
Last April, the instructor admitted the Dignity and Justice complaint against the eight members of the ETA executive committee or zuba at the time of the attack –María Soledad Iparraguirre, alias ‘Anboto’; Mikel Albisu, ‘Mikel Antza’; Ramón Sagarzu, ‘Ramontxo’; Gorka Palacios; Garikoitz Aspiazu; Aitzol Iriondo; Felix Ignacio Esparza; and Juan Fernández Iradi– and against Garikoitz Arruarte and Gorka Lorán as alleged perpetrators.
The instructor underlined that these former ETA chiefs sought during their mandate “to create a state of total terror”, to generate the feeling “of not knowing where the next attack was going to come from.”
Abascal emphasized that the sequence of attacks that began on May 30, 2003 with the events in Sangüesa “was nothing more than the beginning of a terrorist ‘offensive’, of a strategic shift, clearly different from the preceding months or year, and that plagued the Spanish geography with explosive devices.
