The Ertzaintza points to four former ETA leaders for the attack against the Ondarroa police station

The Basque police insist that the Executive Committee of the band was in charge of issuing the orders "at all times"

MADRID, 18 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ertzaintza has sent a report to the judge of the National Court Alejandro Abascal in which it points to the former leaders of the terrorist group ETA Aitzol Iriondo, alias 'Gurbitz'; Mikel Carrera, 'Ata'; Ainhoa ​​Ozaeta, 'Kuraia' and Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, alias 'Txeroki' as alleged perpetrators of the order that led to the attack against the Ondarroa police station in 2008.

In this document sent to the person in charge of the Central Court of Instruction Number 1, to which Europa Press has had access, the Basque police make it clear that ETA "has been a perfectly structured organization where each of its components has been subjected to discipline and the orders that the Executive Committee has issued at any time".

In this context, the investigators explain that at the time the car bomb was placed, which left 18 injured and extensive material damage, 'Txeroki' and 'Gurbitz' were at the head of the military apparatus. 'Ata', for his part, was in charge of logistics, and 'Kuraia' was in charge of the treasury.

The regional police have reached this conclusion thanks to the seizure of documentary evidence from ETA and the statements of members of the band once arrested. All these documents, which are contained in the report, are already in the possession of the judge who is investigating the aforementioned former leaders of the gang as the alleged 'masterminds' of the attack.

In the report, the Ertzaintza also focuses on the statements issued by the gang after an attack. "The responsibility and decision to issue said statement comes without a doubt from the Executive Committee", they affirm, adding that with this it is intended that "there is general knowledge that ETA has been the one that assumes responsibility for the attacks and therefore takes responsibility Of the consequences".

Thus, the police also provide a copy of the letter that the band published claiming responsibility for the Ondarroa attack and many others committed in the second half of 2008.

In this context, the investigators continue to point out that the members of the ETA Executive Committee "are not physically and personally in each of the attacks carried out by the members of the band." "However, within the very operation of the band, the Executive Committee is in charge of designing the strategy and directing all the means to achieve it," they say.

On the other hand, the agents refer to other information or evidence relevant to the investigation of these facts. Thus, in relation to the Zutabe --the band's internal newsletter-- they recall that its purpose was to "reinforce internal cohesion and serve as ideological indoctrination."

That publication, the police explained, was edited directly by the ETA leadership, which "marked the strategic lines and lines of action that were carried out and those that they intended to carry out in the future."

"From these provisions it can be inferred that ETA has been a perfectly structured organization, where each of its components has had a mission and was subject to a discipline, under the orders of what was dictated by the components of its organization or Executive Committee" , indicate.

These are the main conclusions of the report that the judge of the National High Court commissioned the investigators last October. At that time, the magistrate urged the agents to report on the "composition on behalf of the entire command structure of ETA" at the time of the attack.

Specifically, the instructor instructed the investigators to specify "the different devices in which each of the defendants was integrated at the time of the facts, also specifying the different sub-devices into which they were divided, and identifying their members and their operation at the time of the facts."

Along these lines, the judge asked the Basque police to take "special interest" in the military, political and logistical apparatus and all the members that made it up, and who would presumably be the other four former leaders of the gang. The magistrate requested that "special" attention be paid to the logistical apparatus "given the very unique commissive means (explosives)" used.