The Criminal Chamber of the National Court has already received the first requests from prisoners of the terrorist organization ETA to benefit from the modification of Organic Law 7/2014, which would allow them to validate the sentences they have served in other countries such as France.
Legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press that the First Section already has on the table the first writings of some convicted members of the gang in which it is urged to accumulate the rulings handed down in the French country and thus discount the sentences served in that country. .
It is worth remembering that the support platform for ETA prisoners Sare last October put the total number of prisoners from the group at 52 who could benefit from this modification, ensuring that there would be seven convicts who should be released from prison this year.
Sare pointed out the possibility that the affected inmates could “claim financial responsibility” specifying that, of them, 48 are in Basque penitentiaries and four in French prisons, with proceedings open in Spain. In total, they noted, there are currently a total of 144 inmates from the gang serving sentences in different regimes.
The Victims of Terrorism Association (AVT), for its part, calculated that up to 44 members of the gang could have their sentences served in France discounted, putting seven ETA members who could be released from prison due to this modification.
In February 2022, the Government denied that there was a “will” on the part of the Executive to reduce the sentence of ETA prisoners through the modification of organic law 7/2014. “There is no will or intention whatsoever,” said the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
However, finally last October the PSOE and Sumar asserted their majority in the Congress Board to definitively approve the law that validates prison sentences served in the European Union.
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