Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Spanish Judge Requests Extradition of former ETA Militant in Venezuela


A Spanish judge has moved to request the official extradition of former ETA militant, Iñaki de Juana Chaos, after the Spanish Embassy in Caracas reported that he is currently residing in Venezuela.  Described as a “fugitive” from justice by Spanish magistrates, De Juana served 21 years in a Spanish jail after being convicted in 1987 for murdering 25 people in a string of gun and bomb attacks in Madrid throughout the 1980s.   The attacks were carried out during De Juana’s time as a chief commander with the armed Basque independence movement ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna – Basque Homeland and Freedom) which is officially classified as a “terrorist” organisation in Spain. More…

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