The case of the Anti-Terrorist Liberation Group (GAL) has returned Monday to the National Court and with it their players, Miguel Angel Planchuelo, Julian Santacristina Jose Amedo, Michel Dominguez .. . The reason is the trial of former head of the Federal Bureau of Information of Bilbao, Planchuelo for two bombings in 1986 in Batxoki bars and 'Consolarion' of France. The latest attack missing LAGs to prosecute in court located in Genoa Street.
The session that started last ten in the morning with the statement of one defendant. During his speech, Planchuelo has assured the court presided over by Alfonso Guevara the Government "authorized" the kidnapping of Segundo Marey in 1983 , action for which he was convicted in 1998 of the Supreme Court to nine years and six months in jail.
on the specific facts of this case, Planchuelo has denied any relation with the facts and declared that the kidnapping of Marey was the only action of the groups that participated. The officer is facing a petition of 114 years in prison on charges raised against GAL Popular Action by ordering two attacks in 1986. Meanwhile the prosecutor does not pursue any charges on the former chief police.
The defendant has justified its involvement in the kidnapping "due to circumstances that were occurring in the Basque Country." "It was chaos, a dead today and another tomorrow, the government authorized the kidnapping could do," said Planchuelo accused of committing a crime of belonging to an armed group and six of attempted murder.
The accused, who has refused to answer questions from the private prosecution exercised by the People's Action against the GAL but has responded to the prosecutor, Pedro Rubira, has denied involvement with the events of which he is charged. To support this statement, the former head of Federal Bureau of Bilbao said he learned the attacks in France "through the press." addition, Miguel Angel Planchuelo has refused to meet with three Portuguese mercenaries who allegedly contacted his subordinates Jose Amedo and Michel Dominguez to make the two attacks.
In this sense, the former deputy Amedo itself has recognized that those hired mercenaries. On these facts, has admitted that Amedo Planchuelo said he "had received money to pay mercenaries" even though he specified that he was the one who gave the ex-cop that amount of money.
"It was a decision of Felipe Gonzalez
For his part, José Amedo, who has declared as a witness, said that "the actions of the groups were the decision of former Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez. Felipe Gonzalez was behind everything." for placing orders in the GAL was "a purely political decision."
It has specified that the decision to commit attacks in France "never took a police commander." "It was a decision of Felipe González and José Barrionuevo and Mr. Julian San Cristobal", which then occupied the posts of interior minister and the civil governor of Vizcaya, respectively.
also added José Amedo These officials told the socialist government with "the approval and consent" of other politicians of the PSOE, especially in the Basque Country. In particular, said the deputy Txiqui Benegas-sucking in 1983 to post-lehendakari, former government delegate in the Basque Country and the present Minister of the Presidency, Ramon Jauregui, and former Secretary General Socialist Ricardo Garcia Damborenea
Vizcaya
During his testimony, Amedo has criticized the legal proceedings conducted by the National Court judge, Baltasar Garzon, currently suspended from duty, and who revived the GAL after passing as a member of PSE. Deputy Inspector of Police, sentenced to 108 years in prison by the Supreme Court has said that if Gonzalez had appointed Interior Minister Garzón "the summary of the GAL would not have existed."
In the afternoon session, said the police witness Michel Dominguez, also sentenced to 108 years in prison for attempted to recruit mercenaries in France in 1986. Dominguez also has denied Planchuelo had to do with the attacks in the south of France. In this sense has ruled the former civil governor of Vizcaya, Julian Sancristóbal, who has indicated to the Board that creation of the GAL was ordered by the leadership of the Ministry of Interior in 1983. "There we took a decision that was not authorized by the central government's Interior Ministry," he assured. Lastly
has testified the former secretary of the PSOE in Vizcaya, Ricardo Garcia Damborenea, who has stated that it believes that the members of ETA kidnapping was a crime.
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