The ETA members Óscar Abad Palacios and José Ramón Martínez have disassociated themselves throughout the trial that was held this Monday on the National Court of the assault with a bicycle bomb that killed the policeman Ignacio Pérez Álvarez.
It occurred in Galdácano (Vizcaya) in January 1990. Both have declared that they didn’t take part in that assault. The former member of the terrorist group Carmen Guisásola, on her half, has refused to testify.
The Prosecutor’s Office asks for 30 years for every of the defendants, contemplating that they activated by the use of radio management the explosive machine that that they had beforehand left within the saddlebag of a motorbike.
Guisásola, in accordance with the account of the Public Ministry, reported to the opposite two the knowledge on the each day actions of the sufferer and offered stated car.
The first to testify was Palacios, who specified that he joined ETA within the spring of 1991, greater than a 12 months after the occasions for which he’s being tried.
When it occurred, he was making ready to begin his necessary navy service. He recalled that they arrested him “as a result of a tool we have been making ready exploded. My companion died and I used to be severely injured on the ground.”
“I used to be transferred to the Basurto hospital,” he recounted earlier than persevering with that his recollections are “very diffuse”, since “he was sedated, not very acutely aware.” He has stated that then “an individual arrived”.
“They stated that he was my lawyer and that he was going to take my assertion, however I couldn’t talk with him (…) The police requested, I answered and the lawyer… I noticed a lump there in a nook. I used to be merely like a plaster cat”, has in contrast.
They denounce statements underneath strain
In this context, Palacios has repeated that his statements have been made underneath strain and in an “atmosphere of violence.” “The Policeman takes my hand to signal,” he assured.
José Ramón Martínez, for his half, has identified that he didn’t collaborate with ETA till “a bit later” after the assault. “I solely knew my Basque instructor, he was a self-employed electrician. He requested me to go purchase some materials and he did not ask many questions”, he recalled.
“I wasn’t silly, you knew what it might be for however you did not ask rather a lot. Little by little he requested me for extra issues and I informed him I did not wish to get entangled as a result of it might trigger me issues,” he admitted.
He was convicted of gang membership after his fingerprints appeared on batteries utilized in an explosive machine. But he has adopted the identical line as Palacios, denouncing alleged violations of rights throughout his police assertion.
His assertion earlier than the brokers, which might have occurred with out his having been in a position to see his lawyer, was later modified earlier than the inspecting Justice of the Peace. “Because they have been beating me, they stored me awake and threatened me with folks from my household. Terrible strain,” he has described.
The first session of the trial has closed with the assertion of the agent who went to the scene of the assault after receiving a name warning of it. “When I arrive, I observe an individual who has died because of an explosion of an artifact that impacts him totally,” he recounted.