MIAMI, United States. – The ETA terrorist Iñaki Rodríguez Muñoa, alias Zippo, returned to the Basque Country after 35 years in Cuba, according to what the Spanish newspaper reported this Friday The reason.
Rodríguez Muñoa was arrested in France in 1985, later confined in the French southwest and finally deported to Cape Verde in 1986. A year later, he moved to Cuba, where his crimes prescribed, according to the Spanish media.
Rodríguez Muñoa was linked to the kidnapping and murder of Pharmacy captain Alberto Martín Barrios, kidnapped on October 5, 1983 when he was on his way to his job in the Bilbao Military Government.
In accordance with The reasontwo other ETA members who were refugees in Cape Verde and Cuba also returned to the Basque Country “without apparently having had any legal problems due to the statute of limitations for their crimes or other circumstances.”
They are Emilio Martínez de Marigorta and Félix Manzanos Martínez, who were transferred to Cape Verde 33 years ago.
Martínez de Marigorta was investigated for the bomb murder of two workers from an assembly company at the Lemóniz nuclear power plant, Vizcaya; while Manzanos Martínez was linked to seven murders, six of them by national police in 1982.
The reason remember that the crimes attributed to the three ETA members have prescribed or are about to do so, so the victims will be left without the justice they deserve.
An association of relatives of prisoners imprisoned for belonging to ETAEtxerat, told the Spanish media that “since the beginning of the political deportations, at the end of the 1980s, a total of 70 Basque citizens have suffered this punishment, and of these, a total of 12 have died up to now.” the moment away from Euskal Herria”.
In Cuba, in particular, two other Basque refugees still live: José Ángel Urteaga Martínez and Josu Abrisketa Korta.
Starting in the 1980s, the Cuban regime began to welcome members of ETA, as a result of a 1984 agreement by which Havana undertook not to prevent the possible departure of members of the ETA community from the island.
So far, the regime has not referred to the departure of Iñaki Rodríguez Muñoa from the Island.
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