The report contains the proposals of MEPs who traveled to the Basque Country and Madrid in November 2021. It includes the recommendation to consider crimes before 2004 as crimes against humanity, despite the fact that Spanish law does not allow it, as it will not be punishable until this year.
The European parliament he has recommended the Spanish state to investigate the possibility of Recognize ETA crimes as crimes against humanity so that they can neither prescribe nor amnesty.
The text contains the proposals of MEPs who traveled to the Basque Country and Madrid in November 2021 and met groups of victims and members of the judiciary and security forces in November 2021. The report of the Petitions Committee’s mission to investigate ETA’s unsolved crimes is: adopted today with 27 votes in favour, three against and three abstentions
The report suggests that the Spanish authorities are “exhausting the interpretative powers of criminal law” to give this differential treatment to the 379 ETA murders that have not yet been solved, including the crimes before 2004the year in which this characterization was introduced in the Spanish Penal Code.
This recommendation has finally been incorporated into the final text, despite efforts by the PSOE to eliminate this point.
The Socialist Group in the European Parliament warned in the amendment phase that: current regulations do not allow crimes against humanity to be considered crimes prior to that year, and so the National Court had confirmed. “We understand perfectly the victims’ allegations in this sense, but we must promote respect for the law and be aware of the impossibility of retroactive application of the application of crimes against humanity,” said socialist deputy Cristina Maestre .
The text also includes other recommendations, such as: prison benefits and the treatment that can be given to the convicted person link to “your collaboration” in the resolution of all attacks of which they are aware”.
Furthermore, the text to denounce the obeisances and welcome to ETA inmates, and asks that the public glorification of the convicted members of the armed organization be avoided when released from prison, because of the pain and secondary victimization this entails for the victims.
Source: EITB
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