The judge of the National Court Antonio Piña has sent the two detained last Saturday in Irún to unconditional prison for terrorism crimes. This was what the prosecutor Vicente González Mota had claimed after the appearance of both before the instructor. The prosecutor detects evidence of the crimes of belonging to a terrorist organization, in addition to possession of weapons and explosives, attacks against authority and public disorder, all of them with a terrorist nature.
Aratz Bilbao and Malen Grünig were identified on September 26 in Escoriaza (Guipúzcoa) at an Ertzaintza checkpoint. Both, linked to the radical nationalist left, were accompanied by an Irish citizen, Naoise O'Conarain. Their arrest occurred on Saturday, when they appeared with a lawyer at an Ertzaintza police station in Irún.
In the prison records, the magistrate indicates that they had in their possession lists of civil guards and numerous encrypted devices, "in which there are photographs of training for the perpetration of violent acts or acts against public peace, photographs with ETA flags and the entire contents of the telephone of a national police agent, as well as songs from other members of the organization who were detained, photographs of vehicles and license plates that could correspond to police vehicles."
According to the resolution, at 4:03 a.m. on September 26, Ertzaintza agents stopped a vehicle during an alcohol and drug check they were carrying out in Eskoriatza (Gipuzkoa). The driver turned out to be Malen Grunig Ibáñez, "who had a Schengen signal from Italy for discreet control for reasons of national security", which is why the rest of the occupants were identified. They were Aratz Bilbao Gómez, "who was subject to specific control by France for reasons of national security" and the Irishman Mr. Naoise O'Conarain.
Aratz Bilbao carried on his feet a backpack with "suspicious evidence related to information about a possible cache with material, information about people belonging to other police forces, dozens of handwritten notes of vehicle license plates and documentation, in paper format and pendrives, most of them encrypted" all related to the radical Abertzale group Jordun Koordinadoro.
In the back seat, a cloth bag belonging to Malen Grunig was found containing "two satellite phones ("walky talkies") that allow you to send encrypted text messages without cell phone coverage or the Internet."
The people identified in the police action, Malen and Aratz, are part of Jardun Koordinadora, an organization, says the instructor, composed of "Jarki", self-defined as an organization that promotes the revolutionary, independence and socialist ideological struggle, and Aske, an independence, socialist, pro-amnesty and anti-repression organization.
The judge maintains that Aratz Bilbao's imprisonment is appropriate to prevent his escape and the repetition of the crime, "which could determine the carrying out of more serious actions, closely related to those reported."
In the case of the other investigated, it indicates that she is an active member of Jarki/Jardun who has participated and has been identified "in several violent acts carried out by that organization, over which there is a control signal requested by Italy, which suggests that she has carried out similar activity in other countries."
As the order explains, in accordance with the change in strategy of the MLNV in 2010, reflected in the Zutik EH document, ETA, self-defined as a revolutionary socialist organization, decreed the definitive cessation of its armed activity in 2011. Since then, militants from around the so-called Basque National Liberation Movement, dissatisfied with that decision, have been grouping together in different organizations, initially highlighting IBIL, Iraultzaileen Bilgunea (2013), which later gave rise to ATA Amnesty ta Askatasuna. One of the organizations, the text points out, was Jarki, whose existence was learned on July 11, 2015, although it was later found that it had been established since approximately mid-2013, having passed this entire period without having been detected thanks to the discretion, security measures and clandestine guidelines with which its members operated.
