Sánchez accuses the PP of "spurious use" and "shameless" by ETA after criticism for bringing Txapote and Parot closer

He assures that the PP brought "hundreds of prisoners" to Euskadi when the gang killed and had people kidnapped

MADRID, 1 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has responded today to the criticism of the PP for the approach to the Basque Country of 13 ETA members, including Txapote and Parot, accusing this party of "spurious use" of ETA terrorism.

Yesterday, the Ministry of the Interior announced another round of transfers of prisoners from the terrorist group to the Basque Country, among which are some as bloodthirsty as Francisco Javier García Gaztelu 'Txapote' - murderer of Miguel Angel Blanco or Gregorio Ordóñez among the 14 who has behind his back--; Henri Parot, author of 39 deadly attacks, among them that of the Zaragoza barracks or Jon Bienzobas, assassin of Francisco Tomás y Valiente.

This decision has led to harsh criticism of the Government by the associations of victims of terrorism and also by the Popular Party, whose parliamentary spokesperson, Cuca Gamarra, accused the Executive of "humiliating" the victims. "To each support from Bildu to Sánchez, a transfer of ETA members with blood crimes to the Basque Country," the popular leader sentenced yesterday on her twitter account.

Pedro Sánchez's response during an interview on Cadena Ser, collected by Europa Press, has been to return the accusation to the PP, assuring that when he governed he brought "hundreds of ETA prisoners to Euskadi while ETA killed and kidnapped people."

"What we have seen these years, after the disappearance of ETA, is the spurious use and without any kind of shame on the part of the PP," exclaimed the chief executive, who considers that his party, both with him and with José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, has had a position of forging "great agreements" against both ETA and jihadist terrorism.

He also assures that the PSOE has always condemned terrorism and shared the pain of the victims. But he believes that "nothing is changing here" because he assures that the terrorists will serve their sentences.

"What the Government is doing is complying with the legislation," he justified himself while arguing that "there are no collective approaches, they are individual, they comply with prison legislation, they comply with judicial control, with information to associations of victims and the parliamentary groups that wish to be informed".

However, he believes that the PP "uses anything", and even does so with a "collective success such as peace", to try to "undermine" the government.