The Court investigates the former ETA leader for the murder of two policemen in Navarra in 2003

Agents of the Civil Guard inspect the place of the attack in Sangüesa, in 2003. JESUS ​​DIGES (EFE)

The National Court has opened a new front to the old ETA domes.

The investigating judge Alejandro Abascal has admitted for processing a complaint filed by the Dignity and Justice (DyJ) association against eight former leaders of the terrorist group for the attack perpetrated in Sangüesa (Navarra) in 2003, which caused the death of two police officers and wounded another agent and a Telefónica worker.

In a letter dated April 7, to which EL PAÍS had access, the magistrate insists that the heads of the "criminal" organization marked the "strategic lines" and there was "nothing" that they did not "control, promote or direct ”.

This movement by Judge Abascal delves into the new path that DyJ is trying to open in court to try to convict the former heads of ETA as "mediate perpetrators by dominance" of the attacks committed by their subordinates - a kind of intellectual instigators of the crimes, having complete control of the gang.

This is the sixth complaint that is admitted for processing for this reason and, in total, 23 former leaders of the gang are already being investigated as such.

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The National Court reopens another case against the leadership of ETA for the attack in Santa Pola in 2002

In the case of the Sangüesa attack, which ended the lives of Bonifacio Martín and Julián Embid, the lawsuit is directed against Ibón Fernández Iradi, alias

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Gorka Palacios,

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Garikoitz Aspiazu,

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Aitzol Iriondo,

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Felix Ignacio Esparza,

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Mikel Albisu,

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Ramón Sagarzazu,

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and Maria Soledad Iparraguirre,

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Only two of them (Susper and Txeroki) were not under investigation in the five cases that had already been reopened.

In addition, the instructor Alejandro Abascal also puts his sights on two other ETA members, Garikoitz Arruarte and Gorka Lorán, as alleged perpetrators of the murder of the two policemen.

Dignidad y Justicia states that ETA "was increasingly cornered" in 2003 and 2004. "Weakened by the work of the State Security Forces and Bodies", the group's leadership then decided to distribute a "large quantity of explosive titadine ” to your various commands.

According to the complaint, part of this material was used in the Sangüesa crime, committed on May 30, 2003, just five days after the municipal elections.

This attack inaugurated a chain of attacks.

The funeral of the murdered policemen in Sangüesa (Navarra).

“If another period of the band was called the 'years of lead', that second half of 2003 was the 'months of the Titadine', Abascal points out in his resolution dated April 7.

“The

—the leadership of ETA, in the jargon of terrorists— sought to create a state of total terror.

And it was something totally premeditated, totally wanted and calculated within the operational possibilities that still remained in their hands, ”says the DyJ complaint, in a story collected by the judge.

In total, there are six reintroduced summaries that tighten the fence on these 23 former ETA leaders.

In addition to the Sangüesa crime, they are being investigated as mediate authors (inducers) of the murders of popular councilors Gregorio Ordóñez and Miguel Ángel Blanco;

the attack against magistrate Francisco Querol, where the judge and three other people lost their lives;

the attack against the T-4 of the Barajas airport, with two deaths;

and the car bomb placed in 2002 next to the Civil Guard headquarters in Santa Pola (Alicante), which left two dead – one of the two, a six-year-old girl.