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AVT asks Judge Pedraz to rule on his request to prosecute the commando that attempted against Judge Querol

MADRID, 16 Ene.

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AVT asks Judge Pedraz to rule on his request to prosecute the commando that attempted against Judge Querol

MADRID, 16 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Association of Victims of Terrorism (AVT) has asked the judge of the National Court Santiago Pedraz, who is investigating the role of the former leadership of ETA in the murder of judge Francisco Querol on October 30, 2000 in Madrid, to extend the investigation and carry out the procedure requested in March, that is, the prosecution of the four members of the 'Buru Huaste' command, Ana Belén Egües, Ivan Apaolaza, Juan Luis Rubenach and Gorka Palacios Alday.

For the AVT, the terrorist action was carried out by them, because they participated "in the work carried out for the commission of the same (carrying out surveillance, preparing an explosive device, placing an explosive device)".

This was indicated by the victims' association in the March letter, to which Europa Press had access, and in which they pointed out that there were some indicative elements that constituted "sufficient grounds to issue an indictment, and it must be at the hearing where their procedural validity is discussed and the interpretation that the sentencing court makes of them".

Now, in a letter dated January 13, 2023, to which this news agency has also accessed, the AVT indicates that in response to the order of the Central Investigating Court number 5, which asked the parties if it should extend the instruction, They request that it be extended.

"Because there are pending investigative procedures to clarify the facts that are the subject of this proceeding. Among them would be the procedures requested by this party in a letter dated March 28, 2022 on which the Court has not yet ruled," it indicates. the AVT.

It should be remembered that Pedraz tries to clarify the attack, in which, in addition to the magistrate judge Juan Francisco Querol, who was the target, in military robes, his driver, Armando Medina, lost his life; the national policeman Jesús Escudero, and an EMT driver named Jesús Sánchez. Another 30 people were injured of varying degrees.

Although the case has been reopened on several occasions, the last request for reopening was from the AVT, and it was accepted by the National Court in February 2021 with the aim of requesting certain information from the General Information Commissioner regarding the attack and to that the Central Intelligence Unit of the Civil Guard draft a new report.

To this was added that in December 2021 the judge processed a Dignity and Justice complaint and agreed in an order to take a statement from almost a dozen former ETA leaders, including María Soledad Iparraguirre, alias 'Anboto'; Javier García, 'Txapote', and Ignacio Miguel Gracia, 'Iñaki de Rentería', for the murder of Querol, who was 69 years old.

The magistrate received a report last November in which the Civil Guard identifies 'Iñaki de Rentería', 'Mikel Antza', 'Txapote', 'Jon', 'Baltza', 'Willy', 'Ramuntxo', ' Anboto' and 'Olga' as members of the terrorist leadership that gave the "timely orders" to kill Judge Querol.

Throughout 307 pages, the Armed Institute placed these nine former ETA leaders as members of its "highest management body" at that time who "would have participated in the design, management, monitoring, media facilitation and delivery of the orders opportune for the materialization of the terrorist action".

The Civil Guard framed the murder of Querol in the new strategy agreed in 1997 "in a collegiate manner" by the ETA leadership to initiate a series of attacks against judges, magistrates and prosecutors, after the fall in 1992 of the ETA leadership in Bidart ( France).