The Civil Guard takes a photograph of ETA in the period 1994-2004 for the AN: 1,000 militants and 480 attacks

The band maintained in 2000 "great structural stability" and the dome was aware of the devices

MADRID, 28 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Civil Guard includes in a report prepared for the National Court a detailed analysis of the terrorist activity of the terrorist group ETA between 1994 and 2004: it had approximately 1,000 militants and carried out 480 terrorist actions with a total of 101 fatalities .

These data appear in the report prepared by the Civil Guard within the framework of the investigation that is being followed in the National Court to determine which members of the leadership were acting as such when the "opportune orders" were given to kill the Supreme Court magistrate Francisco Querol and two other people on October 30, 2000 in Madrid.

This investigation began in the Central Court of Instruction number 5 as a result of the complaint filed by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Arias, a lawyer for the Dignity and Justice association. Now, in more than 300 pages, the agents, in addition to reviewing the activity of each of the ETA leaders at that time, analyze in detail the situation and activity of the band.

Thus, for example, it explains that, of these 480 actions --among which are the attack on former Prime Minister José María Aznar or the kidnapping of José Antonio Ortega Lara--, 34 took place in Madrid with the result of 24 fatalities. .

Intelligence agents indicate that in October 2000, the year in which the attack on Judge Querol was perpetrated, ETA was made up of approximately 1,000 militants. To arrive at this figure, the Civil Guard has used internal documents of the band called 'H-211-Akta', 'H-211-Egitura' and 'H211-Ondorioak' --referring to minutes of the Executive Committee ( Zuba)--, which were seized in 2002 from members of the organization in different police operations carried out in France.

It can be deduced from them that this number of militants, collected in internal records of November 2002, also included those who were inmates in prisons.

The Civil Guard considers that at the time the attack against the judge took place, "the terrorist organization ETA maintained great structural stability both in its lines of action and in the number of members that made up its different apparatuses." For this reason, he argues, the figure for the number of members presented at the November 2002 meeting was "very close to that at the time of the aforementioned terrorist attack."

Regarding this stability in the structure, the report asserts that the executive committee of the band "had not undergone significant changes from 1999 to September 2002", at which time the top officials of the 'military apparatus' were arrested. ', Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi and Ainhoa ​​Mugica Goñi.

In addition, the agents enter to explain that the terrorist band was mainly divided into three apparatuses: the military -'Otsagi'-, the logistical -'Lohi'-; and the political apparatus -'Poltsa'-.

They remember the first that its main functions were the recruitment of new members who would become part of the structure of the organization; give training courses focused on learning the use of weapons and explosives as well as the dissemination of the ideological component; prepare information on the various targets to attack; and carry out terrorist actions.

Regarding the logistics apparatus - to which they dedicate an extensive section - they point out that it had "its own functions based on the acquisition of material, falsification of documentation and registration plates".

As for the political apparatus, they point out that it was dedicated to the management of the economy of the terrorist organization, "including those income from extortion." "It was also in charge of the management of the group of prisoners "through a structure called 'Halboka', of the development of those infrastructures prepared to welcome the fleeing members, the creation of propaganda and international cooperation." They explain that this apparatus had at least with up to seven sub-appliances.

The report highlights that among the different minutes documents confiscated from the ETA leadership at the time included "information about the number of members framed in each of the 'apparatus'. What's more, it added to this count "all those who are prisoners in jails, referring to them with the term 'Bahituta'".

This puts black on white that ETA's 'executive committee' was aware of each device of the band, and that for this it "held periodic meetings, usually bimonthly, in which the most relevant aspects for the organization were discussed. terrorist".

This periodicity is evident in the document 'H-211-Egitura' since it contains an accounting balance which analyzes the number of members that made up the different ETA apparatuses and sub-aparatuses in the months of April, July, September and November 2002.

In the report, the agents also echo an internal database of the band, which is called 'DGZ' --Data Gune Zentrala, Central Data Base in Spanish--, and which was located by the French police in the police operation that led to the arrest of the leader Francisco Javier López Peña in Bordeaux (France) in May 2008.

In that database, which was provided to the Information Headquarters of the Civil Guard, there were specific files on possible targets. The leadership of the gang, depending on the type of 'front' against which to materialize attacks, "was nurturing and updating it".

"The objective of the 'DGZ' base would be none other than to collect all the information in the Organization's possession on potential targets to be subsequently used depending on the needs that the management deems appropriate," says the Civil Guard report.

In fact, this updating of the database, says the Civil Guard, is reflected in the case of the murder of judge Querol because they estimate that once they carried out the attack against him in October 2000, "those in charge of managing the database of objectives of ETA would have updated the particular file that appeared on it (...) with the words 'ekintza' (terrorist action) and 'zendu' (dead).