The National Court has agreed to release the former head of the terrorist group ETA. Miren Itxaso Zaldúa, Sahatsa, sentenced last week to 110 years in prison for organizing three attacks in Zaragoza and Navarra in 2002, but prohibited from leaving national territory without permission from the court.
In an order the magistrates refuse to agree to the provisional imprisonment requested by the Prosecutor’s Office and the Association Victims of Terrorism (AVT) considering that the flight risk does not automatically follow from the conviction, which is not final, imposed on Zaldúa.
They also take into account that he has not evaded justice while he has been at liberty in this case and that she has appeared before the court as many times as she has been summoned..
Works in the Basque Country
In addition, they add that has work and roots in two localities of the Basque Countryand that “no means have been revealed that could allow her to evade justice if she decided to do so, since the criminal organization to which she belonged is currently disbanded”.
In its decision, the Court imposes on the convicted person the obligation to to designate a domicile in Spain for the purpose of notifications and the prohibition to leave the national territory without permission of the court.
The Prosecutor’s Office and the AVT requested his imprisonment. as they understood that there was a risk of absconding derived from the seriousness of the sentences imposed, while his defense argued that he should remain at liberty since his will was to remain at the disposal of the court and face the consequences of the sentence handed down, in addition to having appeared before the judicial body whenever required, and his roots in Spain.
The Audiencia Nacional imposed this Friday a sentence of more than a hundred years in prison. for several crimes in relation to her participation in three attacks in 2002 against El Corte Inglés in Zaragoza and two companies in Navarra, which left several people injured and caused numerous material damages, and acquitted her for another attack against the University of Navarra.