The Ertzaintza relies on the letters and communiqués of ETA to point to its leadership for the death of Miguel Ángel Blanco

He points out that the band submitted "to the discipline and orders that the Executive Committee" dictated at all times

MADRID, 9 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ertzaintza has sent a report to the judge of the National High Court investigating the murder of the Popular Party councilor in Ermua, Miguel Ángel Blanco, based on different letters and communiqués from ETA to point to the leadership of the gang as being responsible for order his death.

In that report dated May 23, to which Europa Press has had access, the Basque regional police sends the head of the Central Investigating Court Number 6 the information he ordered to determine whether the idea of ​​the murder perpetrated on July 12, 1997 left the highest management body of ETA.

"ETA has been a perfectly structured organization, where each of its components has had a mission and has been subject to the discipline and orders that the Executive Committee has issued at all times," the researchers maintain.

To justify this statement, the Ertzaintza recalls that the First Section of the Criminal Chamber already pointed to this point in the 2006 ruling that sentenced the perpetrators of the murder to 50 years in prison: Francisco Javier García Gaztelu, 'Txapote ', and his sentimental partner and member of ETA Irantzu Gallastegui Sodupe, 'Amaia'.

The ruling, specifically, indicated that Txapote, Amaia and a third person who had already died were part of a command that, following "instructions received from the leadership" of ETA, "decided to carry out an action" against the 'popular' leader .

It was last March when the instructor agreed to reopen the investigation into the murder after admitting a complaint that the Dignity and Justice association directed against the nine heads of the terrorist group that allegedly made up the highest management body at the time of the murder. White's death.

Among them is, as the Ertzainzta recalls, José Javier Arizcuren, alias 'Kantauri', prosecuted in this case "by virtue of the content of certain letters seized in France as a member" of the ZUBA.

Thus, the police focus on some of those letters in which Kantauri "gave precise instructions" to a commando to carry out the kidnapping of a 'popular' councilor. "Put all your strength, desire and militancy in raising a PP councilor", collected the same. In another, the ETA member added: "If you can't kidnap, hit him in the head"

On the other hand, the Ertzaintza also refers to the band's statement released on the afternoon of July 10, 1997 announcing Blanco's abduction and announcing that the cost of his freedom would be the return of 600 ETA prisoners to the Basque Country.

"The writing of the communiqués supposes, in the first place, the knowledge of the true authorship of all the actions whose commission is claimed by ETA through them", explains the Ertzaintza, which adds "the responsibility and decision to issue said communiqué comes certainly from the Executive Committee of the band in France".

In his opinion, "once a communique has been issued through the social media, the terrorist group intends thereby to spread knowledge that it has been ETA as an armed organization that assumes responsibility for the attacks committed by its commandos ". "And therefore he is responsible for the consequences derived from them," they add.

The report also refers to other documents seized from the gang in the dismantling of the Vizcaya, Álava and Donosti commandos. In some of the located letters, members of the gang were entrusted with the murder, among others, of the socialist leader Fernando Múgica.

Among the files to which the Ertzaintza refers are also letters seized from María Soledad Iparaguirre, alias 'Anboto', another member of the Executive Committee of the gang at the time of Blanco's murder.

These letters called for an attack against the Palace of Justice in Durango, against the Gernika barracks, and enriched information was requested on companies and businessmen from whom the revolutionary tax was claimed.