The former terrorist of ETA Itziar Moreno Martínez, former partner of the “House of Óbidos” Etarra, Oier Gómez Mielgoit is one of the activists of the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza, detained by the authorities of Israel.
According to the Ministry of Spanish Foreign Affairs, among the 49 activists of that detained country, is another former terrorist of the condemned ETA: Dare Carrasco It was implied by the Civil Guard in 16 acts of urban guerrillas (“Kale Borroka”) committed when he was only 20 years old. He fled to France, where he joined the logistics commands of ETA, where he was convicted. It was released from prison six years ago.
When he was arrested in France a year after he ran away from Portugal, Oier Gómez Mielgo, one of the back -based operation of the Terrorist Group ETA in Portuguese territory – which became known as the “Obidos House – was with his partner, Itziar Moreno Martínez, also sought by the anti -terrorist fight authorities in Spain. shots that hurt one of the police officers.
They were both convicted in 2011 to 15 years in jail. Hi was released before serving the whole sentence due to a terminal disease, having died in 2019.
Itziar Martínez, who, at the time he was captured was one of the most sought after to security forces, was also suspected of having participated in the installation on December 31, 2008, a bomb car in Bilbao, at the headquarters of EITB (Basque Public Television), located in a building that also housed antenna 3, El Mundo, Expansión, Catalunya Radio and Cero.
An arsenal of explosive material was discovered in a villa near Óbidos, Caldas da Rainha, on 5 February 2010. In addition to Mielgo, another of the identified operational was Andoni Zengotitabengoa Fernandez, who would be detained at Lisbon airport on March 11, 2010, while trying to board Venezuela.
Accused of several crimes for terrorist practice, Andoni Fernandez eventually saw his aggravated prosecution at the end of the trial with the prosecutor to rose his action to the level of adhesion crime to the terrorist organization.
He was sentenced to 12 years in jail and released from Monsanto’s arrest in 2019, before the end of the sentence, a year after the terrorist organization ETA announced the end point in more than 60 years of campaign for the independence of the Basque’s Spanish autonomous community, which caused the death of about 850 people.
The investigation by the PJ National Unit of Counter -Terrism, directed by the Central Department of Research and Criminal Action (DCIAP) was considered a historic milestone, since it was the first time an etarra was brought to court in Portugal for the practice of crimes in the national territory. Especially after, for several years, political officials deny the presence of WWTPs in our country.