Two executives of ETA indicted and imprisoned in France – Le Figaro

One of these two members of the separatist group, ages 35 and 54, is accused of murdering a policeman in 2010.

Two executives of ETA arrested earlier this week in France have been indicted by the French courts and imprisoned in the night from Saturday to Sunday. One of them is suspected of killing a police officer in the Paris region in 2010. The hosting couple and the owner of the house Ossès, about forty kilometers from Bayonne in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, where they were arrested, were also placed under judicial supervision after their indictment.

Spanish national, Xabier Goyenechea Irragori, 35, and Joseba Inaki Reta, 56, were arrested after receipt of information by the Directorate General of Internal Security (ISB) on 6 July. Responsible for the logistics sector, both ETA alleged were among the “most wanted” by the Spanish authorities.

The two men were indicted on multiple counts of charges, including criminal conspiracy, possession and transportation of weapons, possession of false documents, all in relation with a terrorist enterprise. The owner of the house, a nurse, was also under investigation for terrorist financing.

Xabier Goyenechea Irragori is also believed to be one of the two authors of the shots during the shooting that had killed the sergeant Jean-Serge Nérin, 52, 16 March 2010. It is thus one of separatist six suspected members of an ETA commando that must appear in the fall before the special sitting of Paris for the murder of sergeant Nérin. Investigators are convinced that it is one of two men who opened fire on the police officers who caught them on a local road of Villiers-en-Biere, Seine-et-Marne. The other gunman Mikel Carrera Sarobe, alias “Ata”. Former number one of the military, it is considered a “hard” of ETA.

Inaki Reta Goyenechea Irragori was, in Madrid, in charge of “technical and logistics department” of Basque organization, responsible for the deaths of at least 829 people in the name of his struggle for independence of the Basque Country and Navarre. Weakened by the blows of the French and Spanish police, ETA renounced armed struggle in October 2011 but required before any dissolution of the negotiations, including the issue of its prisoners.

A Spanish judge has also just d open an investigation ETA for “crimes against humanity”. The judge declared admissible the complaint filed by several associations for victims of assassinations and kidnappings “that could have been committed by ETA after 2004,” Effective Date of the Penal Code which incorporates the crimes.

The organization has committed its first attack, the murder of a police officer in 1968. She sued them after the advent of democracy in Spain. According to a university study in 2014, among its victims include 206 civil guards, 149 police officers, 87 officers and NCOs, 30 political figures.