The AN judges the ETA member Asier Eceiza for his alleged involvement in the murder of a PSOE councilor in 2002

The Prosecutor's Office asks to sentence him to 28 years in prison as a necessary cooperator in his death

MADRID, 18 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Court (AN) judges from this Monday the ETA member Asier Eceiza, who is facing a request for 28 years in prison for his alleged involvement in the murder in Orio (Guipúzcoa) of the socialist councilor Juan Priede.

In its brief with provisional conclusions, to which Europa Press has had access, the Prosecutor's Office requests that the ETA member be sentenced to 28 years in prison as a necessary collaborator in the death of Priede, whom the terrorist group ETA killed with three shots.

According to the account of the Public Ministry, Eceiza would have carried out "surveillance and information on the schedules, movements and customs of the PSOE councilor" at the request of the Bakartxo commando, the person responsible for the attack.

Thus, and according to the letter, Eceiza would have studied "the different routes of entry and exit from Orio in order to facilitate the execution of the projected attack and the subsequent escape" of the murderers.

Eceiza himself would have waited for the perpetrators of the death of the socialist in the tunnel located on the Bilbao-Behobia highway, where they arrived after abandoning the car with which they fled from the crime scene. Eceiza, with his private vehicle, would have transferred the murderers to the town of Usurbil, where they would have separated.

From there, the two convicted of the death of the PSOE councilor would have moved on two bicycles that they had prepared to an apartment where they hid together with two other convicted in the framework of this same case.