An ETA prisoner returns to jail after being rejected his third degree by the National High Court

ETA prisoner Mikel San Argimiro Isasa has re-entered the Gipuzkoan prison of Martutene, after the Central Court of Penitentiary Surveillance of the National Court (AN) has considered the appeal of the Prosecutor’s Office against the third degree granted by the Department of Justice of the Basque Government, as reported by the association of relatives of ETA Etxerat inmates. San Argimiro has been in prison for 20 and a half years and at the beginning of 2021 he had served three quarters of his sentence. Now, as Etxerat has indicated, “the third degree has been revoked, they have returned him to the second degree and he has returned to jail.” The inmate was convicted, among other crimes, of trying to assassinate former socialist ministers José Barrionuevo and Matilde Fernández , as well as for the placement of a car-bomb in the vicinity of the Santiago Bernabeu on May 1, 2002 when a match between Real Madrid and Barcelona was being played. Eight other ETA prisoners pending the decision of the National CourtAccording to Based on the data provided by the association, the resources of the Prosecutor’s Office against the third degrees of another eight prisoners are currently maintained, waiting for the AN to decide whether to estimate them or not. Recently Xabier Atristain has also re-entered prison, after the High Court revoked his third degree prison. Etxerat has shown his “rejection and uneasiness” because “the rights of the San Sebastian prisoner have been violated” and, above all, because ” The unfair blockade that Spanish justice maintains against the rights of prisoners is situated in a direction contrary to the wishes of Basque society”.