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The Government intends yesterday to dispel the suspicions and discomfort of some associations of victims and members of the security forces for their failure before the European Justice to prevent a sentence in favor of an ETA prisoner from becoming a new doctrine that Other ETA members are already benefiting.
And it did so by filtering to a news agency the writings and appeals that the State Attorney's Office has presented to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) so that Xabier Atristain, ETA member, would not be right, which forces Spain to annul the conviction of 17 years in prison that he imposed in 2013 has compensated him with 20.000 euros.
As soon as the State Attorney's Office presented its last appeal against that European ruling on April 13, ABC has repeatedly requested that document from the Ministry of Justice or, at least, references to the jurisprudence used to refute Atristain.
But he has refused time and time again. Even after groups of victims such as Dignity and Justice showed their "great concern" about the possibility that the Government had used little European jurisprudence to defend itself, just a couple of examples, and in addition to the last century, as reported by ABC this Friday.
The next day and through Ep, yesterday Saturday some details of those documents were known, although most of them as obvious as they are insufficient. The summary is that the State Attorney's Office insisted to the ECHR that, if it ruled in favor of Atristain –as it has done–, this new European doctrine would jeopardize the fight against terrorism and affect other legal cases.
In fact, the National High Court has already acquitted two other ETA members applying the same doctrine and a former head of ETA has already used it to appeal her sentence of 24.5 years in prison before the Supreme Court. The resources of the Government also insisted that, thanks to the incommunicado detention of Atristain for which the ECHR condemns Spain, they avoided attacks.
it was already known
Both argue that they have already been taken for granted, as this newspaper explained in six reports last week. The first, on the brief report with which the Government summarized this last resource for the Victims of Terrorism Association, but without providing it, just before the ECHR did not even admit it. That is why you are informed that the Government will be aware of the seriousness of this previous one.
And ABC also detailed a week ago that the Civil Guard evaded several attacks due to the large number of explosives and assassination planes that they found in Atristain's house after interrogating him. What the Government continues to hide is with what and obtained European jurisprudence Spain defended its position. The only one that is known from the ECHR ruling itself are two examples from 1979 and 1992. It doesn't seem much or very up-to-date. And, seen the result, of course it has not been enough.
