Zulueta, Enparantza, Zuriarrain and Sarriegi’s lawyers believe that the National High Court ruling “declares the opaque intervention of the CNI, the torture, the invalid documents and the principle of ‘Non bis in idem’ (not being tried twice). for the same fact).
The defenses of the four lawyers convicted in summary 13/13 (Arantza Zulueta, Jon Enparantza, Naia Zuriarrain and Iker Sarriegi) announced that will appeal the verdict to the Supreme Court (TS), as this “violates fundamental rights”. In his opinion, the ruling “also confirms torture, invalid records and the principle of ‘Non bis in idem’ (not being tried twice for the same act)”.
The National Court sentenced the four lawyers to nearly 18 years in prison on charges of a crime of integration into a terrorist organization. The Fourth Section of the ICC accused Zulueta, Enparantza, Zuriarrain and Sarriegi of “forming the legal front of ETA, Halboka, whose main purpose was to control the detainees.”
Defense lawyers, Aiert Larrarte, Jone Goirizelaia and Alfonso Zenon, appeared in Bilbao this morning to read the verdict, which they have denounced, has been communicated to them by the media.
The lawyer Jone Goirizelaia has confirmed that the sentence “does not exceed the deficits of human rights violations which we have denounced from the beginning” and cited that with the ruling the national court criticized the records “annulled”, the intervention of communications “without guarantees” or “the statements under torture”. did not take into account “social reality”with ETA already extinct.
“Opaque Intervention of the CNI”
In his view, the sentence is “an interpretation in favor of the judgmental contention of what the Guardia Civil, in its reports, and the CNI have put forward.” The lawyers have denounced that the more than 500 pages of the sentence, the Court “limits itself to summarizing and transferring the minutes of the trial, but then it does not analyze the evidence and forget about the defense”.
Goirizelaia has emphasized that the resolution recognizes the participation of the CNI, something that the defense says was done “illegally”. In addition, he has denounced that the ruling admits that the phones of the investigated lawyers were tapped, but “he takes that for granted”.
“He would not release the documents, he was not able to have the people who took part in that intervention testify at the trial. The evidence is clear, there was a communication intervention that was not carried out with the guarantees and requirements that are established by law, and the sentence uses them and considers them good,” he stated.
He also recalled that the operation began with a follow-up from the former head of ETA, David Plá, “and the origin of the procedure lies there”, while during the hearing “it is clear that this did not happen”.
For all these reasons, they have announced that they will appeal to the Supreme Court, as the sentence “can and should be corrected”.
Source: EITB
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