Pedraz requests authorization from France to strive Txapote and three different former ETA leaders for the homicide of Judge Querol

The choose of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has requested authorization from France for the prosecution of the previous heads of the terrorist group ETA Javier García Gaztelu, alias ‘Txapote’, Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi, ‘Jon’, Ainhoa ​​Múgica Goñi ‘Olga’ and Juan Luis Rubenach for the homicide of choose Francisco Querol.

In an order final Friday, to which Europa Press has had entry, the top of the Central Investigating Court Number 5 agreed to concern an expanded OEDE to request permission from the authorities to proceed in opposition to all of them, investigated for the assault that price him his life. Querol, his driver Armando Medina, the nationwide policeman Jesús Escudero and the EMT driver named Jesús Sánchez. Another 30 folks had been injured.

In addition, the trainer has additionally referred to as Amelia Querol, the Justice of the Peace’s daughter, to testify as a witness, on May 19 at 10:00 a.m.

That similar day Pedraz may also pay attention as a witness to Ibon Echezarreta who, in keeping with the report, stole the die-cutter the place the license plates used within the assault had been made.

Echezarreta would have appropriated that machine on November 20, 1999 at an Eibar dealership and it could have later been delivered to ‘Txapote’. Thus, Pedraz urges the brokers to make clear the place the punching machine was discovered.

In this context, the choose will take an announcement on May 19 from two witnesses to the assault.

The day earlier than, beginning at 10:00 a.m., the Justice of the Peace will full the spherical of testimonies by listening to 4 different individuals who would have witnessed the assault.

Additionally, the trainer asks the brokers to concern a report through which they provide particulars about a number of the diaries seized from the terrorist group. Specifically, Pedraz requests that it’s indicated if any of these notebooks made reference to Judge Querol.

Footprints of varied ETA members

It needs to be remembered that the Police despatched Judge Pedraz this month a report that identifies the fingerprints of a number of members of the terrorist group on a map of aims that included, amongst others, the assault that ended the lifetime of the Justice of the Peace.

That doc, they point out, included the planning and execution of terrorist assaults dedicated in Madrid by members of the ‘Buru Ahuste’ commando. In addition to the one dedicated in opposition to Judge Querol, 4 different assaults dedicated between August 2000 and November 2001 had been additionally reviewed.

The Civil Guard frames the homicide of Querol within the new technique agreed upon in 1997 “collegiately” by the ETA management to provoke a collection of assaults in opposition to judges, magistrates and prosecutors, after the autumn in 1992 of the ETA management in Bidart ( France).

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