Four ETA prisoners have confessed in the trial that they committed the attack with an explosive device to try to kill the journalists Aurora Intxausti, from ‘El País’, and Juan Palomo, from Antena 3, when they were leaving their house in Donostia with their son. 18 months on November 10, 2000. At the hearing held this Monday at the National Court, the prosecutor maintained her request for 74 years and four months in prison for the then members of the Gaua commando of the terrorist group Imanol Miner Villanueva, Asier García Justo and Jon Zubiaurre and the member of the Donosti Patxi commando Xabier Macazaga Azurmendi, the first three as material authors and the last for giving the order to commit it.
However, he has indicated that the maximum applicable legal limit is 30 years in prison for each one and in fact the four accused are free after having served this period in relation to other ETA cases in which they were convicted. During her report, the prosecutor recalled that the terrorists placed on the doormat of the journalist couple’s home a pot with a fern in which the explosive device was placed with cables connected to the door of the apartment so that it would be activated when opened. , according to Efe.
When Juan Palomo opened the door to leave the house with his wife and son, due to a device failure, the detonator did not activate the explosive, more than two kilos of dynamite with another two and a half kilos of shrapnel. Agents of the Civil Guard and the Ertzaintza have declared that if the detonator had been activated it would have had “incalculable and tremendous consequences” since the shock wave would have affected a radius of seven meters which, with the shrapnel they introduced, would have caused the death of the couple. and his son.
Juan Palomo has reported that that day he opened the door of his house around eight in the morning to go out to work with his wife, who was going to take their son to daycare. “When I opened the door it sounded like a firecracker and I saw a large pot stuck to it, so I told Aurora to go back with the child and I called the Ertzaintza,” he added.
He has commented that the attack represented a “total change” and “marked” their lives since they were forced to leave Euskadi and move to Madrid since if they continued there they would both have to be permanently accompanied by two bodyguards, each with a one-year-old child and half. “My father, who had a heart condition and died two years later, at his funeral in Bilbao I was surrounded by ertzainas and every time we went to see our families in the Basque Country we were accompanied by bodyguards,” he indicated.
Aurora Intxausti has pointed out that when she saw the flower pot with the cable coming out, she began to get out of control. “I entered a nebula in which you don’t know how time works, the child started crying so I took some Legos to entertain him and the Ertaintza told us to go to the room furthest from the door.” “My life changed radically, we had to leave Euskadi since it was not healthy for the child to go to the park with four escorts, just as the lives of all the journalists in Euskadi who were not in favor of ETA and its acolytes changed,” he stressed. She has reported that some of her friends lost the baby they were expecting due to the impact of the news of the attack and has stressed: “twenty-four years later I am still on medication and have been subjected to psychiatric and psychological treatment.”
The prosecutor and the lawyer prosecuting the victims have requested the payment of various compensations of more than 200,000 euros to the couple for the consequences and damage caused.
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