The magistrate of the Central Court of Instruction number 1 of the National Court, Francisco de Jorge, who investigates the alleged participation of the ETA dome In the murder of the councilor of the Popular Party Gregorio Ordóñez, he has prosecuted five leaders of the terrorist band. Ignacio Gracia Arregui, ‘Iñaki de Rentería’; Mikel Albisu, ‘Mikel Antza’; Julián Achurra Egurola, ‘Pototo’; José Javier Arizcuren Ruiz, ‘Kantauri’; and Juan Luis Aguirre Lete, ‘Insuntza’,
In a car to which ABC has had access, the magistrate formally imputes these five etarrras crimes of terrorist murder and attack against the life of Gregorio Ordóñez, since “there are rational indications” that these investigated were part of the Executive Committee of ETA that He ordered the popular mayor to kill. The judge summons the defendants to appoint a lawyer to take a statement soon. This decision comes days after Jorge decided to call to declare one of the three material authors of the councilor, Valentín Lasarte, the Next February 17 at 10.30 am.
Ordonez was one of the most relevant political figures in the Basque Country in the 1990s. Deputy Mayor at the City of San Sebastián and president of the PP of Guipúzcoa, the mayor was notorious for his fight against the ETA terrorist band, which ended his life on January 23, 1995 in a bar in the Old part of San Sebastián.
Ordonez was a murder that inaugurated a new strategy that launched the organization to eliminate councilors from the Popular Party in the mid -1990s. This strategy – known as the ‘socialization of suffering’ and as the car collects, was managed after the Civil Guard dismantled in 1992 the ETA dome in Bidart. After that coup “the investigated managed to structurally and operationally reorganize the band, incorporating new members into the new address of ETA,” says the judge in the car.
«These new leaders launched the new strategy, seeking to destabilize the State. The attack on Don Ordóñez is framed in that ‘destabilization strategy’ of which the denounced are part, ”concludes the magistrate.
The murder order was created in Bayonne (France), when José Javier Arizcuren Ruiz, ‘Kantauri’, meets in 1994 with Valentín Lasarte and orders him to attend two ‘released’ to carry out the attack. The three material authors, namely Francisco Javier Gaztelu, ‘Txapote’, and Juan Ramón Carasatorre Aldaz, ‘Zapata’ and Lasarte, were convicted in firm sentences.
Dignity and justice celebrates
The Dignity and Justice Association, which has been advocating for years because the leaders are applied to the doctrine of responsibility to respond for these crimes as intellectual authors, celebrates this decision.
They also highlight that reports of Civil Guard and National Police contributed in the cause of humanity and requested by dignity and justice allowed investigators to find out who were in command when some murders were committed.
With Ordonez, there are already four prosecutions to ETA bosses, the first three being the Miguel Ángel BlancoSanta Pola and Francisco Arratibe.
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