The then prison officer was kidnapped for 532 days, from January 17, 1996 to July 1, 1997, in a cell in an abandoned industrial pavilion in Arrasate.
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This Friday, July 1, the 25 years of the release of the then prison guard Jose Antonio Ortega Lara Ortega Lara kept kidnapped by ETA between January 17, 1996 and July 1, 1997when it was released by the Guardia Civil after passing 532 days in a landfill in an abandoned industrial pavilion in Arrasate. It is about longest kidnapping by ETA
At the time of his kidnapping, Ortega Lara was working as a civil servant in Logroño Prison. On January 17, 1996, after finishing his workday, he was kidnapped by ETA, who did not ask his family for money in exchange for his release; he demanded an end to the repression against his prisoners and their regrouping in Basque prisons.
In the months that followed, there was a lot of news in the political field and also in connection with the kidnapping. In March 1996, the PP he won the general election, which ended 14 years of PSOE rule in Spain; in June, the Table of Ajuria Enea offered ETA to open a period of dialogue on the condition that Ortega be released, and in addition the Spanish executive decided to transfer 28 ETA prisoners to Basque prisons. However, Jaime Mayor Oreja, Minister of the Interior of the Spanish Government chaired by José María Aznar, has chosen to prison policy Also in June a massive manifestation in Bilbao he demanded the release of the kidnapped prison officer.
José Antonio Ortega Lara, then 39 years old, spent his 532 days of kidnapping in a dungeon three meters long, two meters wide and 1.80 meters high. He lost 50 pounds during that time and when he was released he had symptoms of muscle atrophy.
On the same day of his release, a few hours before the Guardia Civil entered the Arrasate industrial warehouse where he was located, ETA had released the Biscayan businessman. Cosme Delclauxwho remained kidnapped for 232 days.
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Source: EITB
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