Request details of who the gang leaders were at the time of the attack and what their roles were
MADRID, 26 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The judge of the National High Court, Alejandro Abascal, has promoted the investigation into the attack perpetrated by ETA against the Ertzaintza police station in Ondarroa (Vizcaya), requesting the Basque regional police to prepare a report detailing the functions of the former heads of the gang whom he investigates as alleged ‘masterminds’ of the attack.
In an order this Monday, to which Europa Press has had access, the person in charge of the Central Court of Instruction Number 1 urges the agents to report on the “name-to-name composition of the entire command structure of ETA, intermediate and superior of the ZUBA or Executive Committee at the time” of the attack that took place on September 21, 2008 and which resulted in 18 injuries and considerable material damage.
Specifically, the instructor orders the investigators to specify “the different devices in which each of the defendants was integrated at the time of the events, also specifying the different sub-devices into which they were divided, and identifying their members and their operation. at the time of the events”.
This diligence comes after Abascal admitted on July 10 to processing the complaint filed by the Dignity and Justice Association (DyJ), accusing Aitzol Iriondo, ‘Gurbitz’ or ‘Barbas’; Mikel Carrera, ‘Ata’; Ainhoa ??Ozaeta, ‘Kuraia’ and Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, alias ‘Txeroki’ for their “alleged responsibility as members of the Executive Committee” of the band.
The magistrate made the decision to investigate ‘Txeroki’ himself despite the fact that the Criminal Chamber of the National High Court agreed that same month to provisionally file the case that was open against him when considering, in accordance with the Prosecutor’s Office and the defense, that there was not enough evidence that he gave the order to attack the police station.
However, the instructor justified “the reopening of the process” by stating “new data acquired later”. Abascal then recalled that the data provided by DyJ allowed him “to make a provisional assessment to reopen the case against Aspiazu Rubina.”
It dealt, specifically, with information “that was unknown at the time the exculpatory resolution was issued” and that, in the opinion of the instructor, “makes his participation and responsibility plausible” in the Ondarroa attack.
DyJ sent the judge a letter last June in which he pointed out that “the loaf of bread on the dashboard” was the very unique ‘modus operandi’ and ‘criminal brand’ of the defendant Txeroki and his ZUBA”, the executive body of ETA The association explained that this signature had been used in the Ondarroa attack.
Thus, the judge asks the Basque police to put “special interest” in the military, political and logistical apparatus and all the members that made them up, and who would allegedly be the other four former leaders of the gang. The magistrate requests that “special” attention be paid to the logistics apparatus “given the very unique means of commissioning (explosives)” used.
The judge also asks that he detail the ‘modus operandi’ of ETA’s “internal management mechanisms and decision-making in its Executive Committee” and that he “provide a copy of the ETA statement” or the “claim for the Ondarroa attack and all the bomb attacks in the second half of 2008”.
Additionally, the magistrate requests that “all documentation and evidence that could have emerged from any other arrest or police action, in relation to the facts that are the subject” of the complaint filed by the association, be provided.
In addition, the investigator urges the agents to send him “information or evidence that could have been seized in relation to the internal communication” as well as “evidence in relation to the ‘fungible’ or interchangeable nature of the members of ETA within the organization.”
Finally, Judge Abascal asks for a “detailed study and comparison of the remains of the device and explosives, and in general of any indication (fingerprinting or of any other type), of the Ondarroa attack.”
