The judge investigating the murder of Judge Querol summons 11 former ETA chiefs to testify at the end of November

The instructor will listen between November 29 and 30 to those who were members of the leadership of the organization

MADRID, 28 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The judge of the National High Court investigating the murder of Magistrate Francisco Querol has summoned 11 former heads of the terrorist organization ETA to testify as under investigation at the end of November for their alleged responsibility as members of the gang's leadership.

In a procedure this Thursday, to which Europa Press has had access, the Central Investigating Court Number 5 directed by Santiago Pedraz has set November 29 and 30 for the appearance of the accused.

In this context, the instructor summoned to court -- to which they must go to give a statement in person from 10:15 am -- to Asier Oyarzabal, 'Baltza'; Mikel Albisu, 'Mikel Antza'; Vicente Goicoechea, 'Willy'; Ramón Sagarzazu, 'Ramontxo' and Miguel Gracia Arregui, 'Iñaki de Rentería'.

A day later the magistrate will listen, but by videoconference from their respective prisons, to the former heads of ETA María Soledad Iparraguirre, alias 'Anboto'; Javier García, 'Txapote'; Gorka Palacios; Juan Carlos Iglesias, 'Gaddafi'; Juan Antonio Olarra, 'Jokin' and Ainhoa ​​Mugica, 'Olga'.

This round of statements is part of the case in which the judge is investigating the leadership of ETA at the time of the attack perpetrated on October 30, 2000 in Madrid, which claimed the life of Judge Querol due to the explosion of a car bomb. His driver, Armando Medina, also lost his life in that attack; the national police officer Jesús Escudero, and an EMT driver named Jesús Sánchez. Another 30 people were injured.

It was last December when Pedraz filed a complaint with Dignity and Justice in which the association pointed to those once responsible for the terrorist organization who have been cited. In the same order, the judge agreed to summon the former gang leaders whom he has summoned.

At that time, acceding to the requests of Dignity and Justice and with the support of the Prosecutor's Office, the investigating judge demanded that both the National Police and the Civil Guard report, based on the data they possess, "the composition named in the name of the entire command structure of ETA, intermediate and superior of ZUBA itself or the Executive Committee at the time of the events (...), specifying the different apparatuses in which each of the defendants was integrated" at that time .

Pedraz expressed his "special interest in the military, political and logistical apparatus or apparatus through which, regardless of their name, effective coverage and support would have been given to the Madrid Command, enabling an effective clandestine presence and its criminal operation."

Specifically, the judge of the National High Court intends to find out who was involved in "the achievement and successful clandestine introduction to Madrid of the large quantity of explosives from the car bomb that would be detonated on October 30."

"This with additional expansion of the specific functions of the defendant (Gorka) Palacios Alday, as responsible, and of any other type as command of the Madrid Command on the ground," he specified, also requesting the list of "ups and downs" of this command. between 1999 and 2000.

He was also interested in the order to learn about the "'modus operandi' of ETA's internal management and decision-making mechanisms in its ZUBA, and in relation to the criteria for the supply of weapons and materials", to determine how they were transmitted the orders and instructions from the leadership to the commandos and the "logistic operation" on the explosives.

Likewise, it asked the General Information Commissioner to examine the stamps related to ETA delivered by France "in order to determine if there is a documentary trace of the organic meeting held between the ETA leaders and the members of the command that was prior to the assassination of the Judge José Francisco de Querol".