The ETA member Asier Eceiza acknowledges before the AN having participated in the murder of Juan Priede, PSOE councilor in 2002

The prosecutor lowers his prison request from 28 to 19 years by pointing out that he was an accomplice

MADRID, 19 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

ETA member Asier Eceiza, who has been on trial since Monday at the National Court for his participation in the attack that killed socialist councilor Juan Priede in Orio in 2002, has acknowledged his participation in the events in court.

The Prosecutor's Office has been interested in modifying its conclusions and, although it maintains the account of the facts, it changes its level of participation in the alleged crimes from necessary cooperator to accomplice to murder, for which reason it lowers the sentence request from 28 to 19 years from jail.

One of the two 'liberated' ETA members who participated in the assassination, Unai Bilbao, and another of his collaborators, Pedro Cano, have also confirmed that Eceiza collaborated in it by transporting ETA members in a vehicle after the attack was committed.

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.