The AN issues a search and arrest warrant against 'Txapote' and three other ETA members for the murder of Judge Querol

This is an instrumental measure to comply with the Euroorders directed to France.

MADRID, 4 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz has agreed to the "search, arrest and imprisonment" of the former leaders of the terrorist group ETA Javier García Gaztelu, alias 'Txapote', Ainhoa ​​Múgica, Juan Antonio Olarra and the former member of the gang Juan Luis Rubenach for the car bomb murder in October 2000 of Supreme Court magistrate Francisco Querol.

Legal sources have confirmed to Europa Press that this decision by the head of the Central Investigative Court Number 5 is merely instrumental and that it complies with the European orders issued to France so that those under investigation can be heard in court.

In the document, dated September 29, the instructor reviews the attack, in which in addition to the judge of the Military Chamber of the Supreme Court, who was the target, his driver, Armando Medina, lost his life; the national police officer Jesús Escudero; and a driver from the EMT – municipal bus company – named Jesús Sánchez. Another 30 people were injured.

The magistrate recalls that, at the time of the events, the leadership of ETA's military apparatus was allegedly made up of 'Txapote', Múgica and Olarra. Rubenach, for his part, would have been part of the Buruhauste commando, which allegedly carried out the attack.

It should be remembered that the magistrate has recently received an intelligence report from the General Information Commissariat (CGI) that reveals that the Buruhauste command of ETA, responsible for the car bomb murder in October 2000 of Supreme Court magistrate Francisco Querol, was carrying out direct orders. of the Executive Committee.

In this report of more than 300 pages and to which Europa Press has had access, the agents review the criminal career of all the leaders of the terrorist gang at the time of the attack, they explain that the gang had a hierarchical structure and in Its conclusions assert that this command "followed the instructions of its military leaders" and was also in charge of deploying "the military strategy planned by ETA in the capital of Spain during the time it remained active (October 1999-November 2001)."

In fact, they point out that this strategy was designed "collegiately and unanimously by all ETA members who made up its Executive Committee at that time" --Zuba-- and that its functions included "not only the determination of the strategic line political and military, but also the design, planning, coordination, direction and sometimes also the order or authorization to carry out the terrorist attacks that were carried out by the operational commands."

On the other hand, last November the magistrate received a report in which the Civil Guard identified nine former leaders of the gang as members of the terrorist leadership that gave the "appropriate orders" to kill Judge Francisco Querol, who at that time had 69 years.

Throughout 307 pages, the Armed Institute places these nine former ETA leaders as members of its "highest management body" at that time who "would have participated in the design, direction, monitoring, facilitation of means and delivery of orders." opportune for the materialization of the terrorist action.

The Civil Guard frames the murder of Querol in the new strategy agreed in 1997 "in a collegial manner" by the ETA leadership to initiate a series of attacks against judges, magistrates and prosecutors, after the fall in 1992 of the ETA leadership in Bidart ( France).