The AN judges the ETA member Txapartegi this Tuesday for the false documentation she was carrying when she was arrested in Switzerland

The ex-responsible for obtaining passports for ETA members who wanted to flee to South America was on the list of most wanted terrorists

MADRID, 13 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The National Court (AN) judges this Tuesday the member of ETA Miren Nekane Txapartegi Nieve, alias 'Illargi', who is facing a request for six months in jail for the false documentation she was carrying when she was arrested in Switzerland in April 2016 The ETA member, for its part, has acknowledged the facts and has complied with the request of the Public Ministry.

In its indictment, to which Europa Press has had access, the Prosecutor's Office requests six months in prison and disqualification for the right to passive suffrage for the same time for a crime of documentary falsification.

Txapartegi, one of the most wanted ETA members up to the moment of her capture, was arrested in Zurich in a joint operation by agents of the anti-terrorist services of the Federal Office of the Swiss Police (FEDPOL) and the General Information Commission of the National Police.

That April 2016, the agents seized a DNI in his name and another that belonged to his daughter. Both identity documents, however, were "performed as entirely false," according to the Public Ministry.

It should be remembered that, in September 2015, the Criminal Chamber of the National Court agreed to the prescription of the ETA member's custodial sentence, thus rendering the claim to Switzerland for its delivery to Spain without effect.

Txapartegi, a member of the international apparatus of ETA, was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for collaboration with the terrorist group, a sentence that could not be carried out as the ETA member had been unaccounted for until her arrest in Switzerland.

A change in criminal law allowed the statute of limitations for ETA crimes to be reviewed, and based on this circumstance, the penalty that would be imposed in Spain would have expired once the five-year period established by the regulations had elapsed.

Nekane Txapartegi, who was a councilor for Herri Batasuna in the Gipuzkoan City Council of Asteasu, was included in the list of most wanted terrorists in 2012, in the first update of the list carried out by the State Security Forces since the ceasefire announced by ETA.

Known for being a member of the international apparatus of the terrorist group, she was in charge for years of obtaining passports for members of the organization who wanted to flee to South America, according to data compiled by Europa Press.

Liaison between the people in charge of ETA and its members, she was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the National Court, accused of integration into a terrorist organization, within the KAS-EKIN-XAKI macro-process (summary 18/98) against the ETA entourage, whose judgment was made public on December 19, 2007.

After joining ETA in 1998, she was arrested in Tolosa on the afternoon of March 9, 1999, in connection with an anti-terrorist operation that began the morning of that same day in Paris against the international apparatus of the band, known as ' Xaki'.

Txapartegui was the liaison with the gang in the French capital, contacting the occupants of an uncovered apartment in the French capital, José Ignacio Herrán Bilbao and Juan María San Pedro Blanco.

They transmitted the information to the other four detainees: José Javier Arizcuren Ruiz, alias 'Kantauri', Irantzu Gallastegui Sodupe, Jesús María Puy Lecumberri and Mikel Zubimendi.