The judge of the National Court Manuel García-Castellón has proposed trying six people, mostly former members of ETA, as perpetrators of a continued crime of humiliation of victims and glorification of terrorism by the organization of 120 acts of tribute to prisoners of ETA between 2016 and 2020.
In the order to move to an abbreviated procedure, agreed upon at the request of the Prosecutor's Office, the head of the Central Court of Instruction 6 proposes to try the members of the Sortu Prisoners Commission José Antonio López Ruiz,
Kubati
, and Oihana Garmendia Marín, together with the investigated Haymar Altuna, Oihana San Vicente Saez de Cerain, Carlos Saez de Egilaz Murgiondo and Felipe San Epifanio San Pedro.
According to the judge, in their capacity as members of the Sortu Prisoners Commission, Kubati and Garmendia Marín, together with the rest of those investigated, "have developed an activity aimed at organizing in a systematic and systematized manner the acts of tribute to the prisoners, using sometimes of the dynamic Kalera Kalera
[a group of former ETA prisoners] and on other occasions from other social movements or associations, depending on the needs of the specific moment.” This development of the organization of the
ongi etorri
and other acts of tribute to the prisoners of the terrorist group was carried out, the order states, through strict regulations, both with regard to which prisoners tribute was paid and with regard to how the tribute had to be developed.
Thus, regarding the first, he explains, “only those prisoners who had remained within the discipline of the group of prisoners during their captivity were paid tribute.” The judge, who records in his resolution the 120 specific acts of homage analyzed, gives the accusations a period of 10 days to present their indictment documents.