The Prosecutor's Office asks to revoke the third degree again from the former head of ETA Olarra Guridi due to the "little reparation for the damage"

The Prosecutor's Office of the National Court has asked to once again revoke the third degree of the former head of ETA Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi, convicted of crimes of murder, injuries, havoc and others related to his membership in the terrorist group, given the "little reparation for the damage" and "the serious crimes committed."

Olarra Guridi was sentenced to more than 1,000 years in prison for the car bomb attack against the Undersecretary of Scientific Policy Juan Junquera on Corazón de María Street (Madrid), on November 6, 2001, which caused 95 injuries. In the aforementioned sentence he was also sentenced to pay large sums to the injured to repair the damage.

In addition, he has another sentence of 28 years in prison for the murder in 1993 of the prison official José Ramón Domínguez Burillo in San Sebastián, when the ETA member was part of the Donosti commando.

As reported by the Public Ministry, the Prosecutor's Office has filed an appeal before the Central Penitentiary Surveillance Court, after last Wednesday the Department of Justice and Human Rights of the Basque Government granted it the third degree.

This is the second time that the Basque Government grants the semi-freedom regime to the former ETA leader, since the first was revoked by the National Court last July.

The Public Ministry argues for "meager reparation for the damage", given the "meager amounts with which it is paying the liability derived from the serious crimes committed" and sees the third degree premature, since until definitive freedom in 2032 there is an excessively long period of time.

"Seriousness of the acts committed"

"This criminal typology must take into account the seriousness of the acts committed, included within the terrorist sphere, since he has been convicted of crimes of murder and others that have caused multiple injuries," he reasons.

Likewise, he has indicated that "the short time that has elapsed since the revocation" of the prison benefit by the National Court "does not allow for a weighted study of the inmate's evolution, for which a longer period of time is required."

For its part, the Basque Executive pointed out that "the center's professionals, jurists, psychologists, educators and social workers who are in permanent contact with the inmates have proposed this progression."

And he pointed out that the objective imposed by the penitentiary legislation is "the reintegration of inmates into society in conditions different from those in which they entered prison" and the Department of Justice and Human Rights embraces it "with conviction."