ETA member Ainhoa García Montero acknowledged this Monday before a court of the Fourth Section of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court that she participated in the murder in 2000 of businessman José María Korta, preparing a car bomb and causing it to explode together to his vehicle at the door of the company he ran, in the Gorostiaga industrial estate in the Guipuzcoan town of Zumaia.
In a brief appearance before the court, García Montero limited himself to nodding when prosecutor Carlos García Berro asked him if he recognized the facts contained in the indictment. “Bai,” he replied. Her defense has not acted as such and she has not wanted to make use of her right to the last word, so in less than half an hour, she has been seen for sentencing.
The Prosecutor’s Office, which requested 28 years in prison for a crime of terrorist homicide and another two and a half for one of falsifying documents given that the car bomb had changed license plates, has slightly reduced the request for a conviction, which remains after the recognition of the facts, in 25 years for the homicide and one year and nine months for the falsification. The Victims of Terrorism Association has joined.
What García Montero has recognized is that as part of the Buruntza/Zartako command of ETA, “in conjunction with other people, he resolved to kill José María Korta, at the time owner of the Korta company, located in the Gorostiaga industrial estate of the Guipuzcoan town of Zumaia.
She was provided with a car previously stolen by the Erezuma commando and she replaced the license plates with a numbering manufactured ad hoc. Afterwards, he loaded a bomb with between 15 and 20 kilos of explosive gelatin or rubber-type dynamite, “and an electric ignition system, which they had in the glove compartment connected to the vehicle’s antenna.”
On August 8, 2000, the accused and another already convicted ETA member parked the car bomb next to the Audi driven by Korta, in front of the main facade of the company. «At around 12:15 p.m. and when José María Korta left the company building and got into the Audi, the defendant and another person already convicted of these events, using a radio control and from the GI-3760 highway, acting with perfect vision of the parking lot, they detonated the explosive that hit their victim, causing his death a few minutes later,” says the indictment that she has assumed in its entirety.
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