Madrid (EFE) deliberations and “in view of what was agreed in relation to said defendant.”
In an order, the magistrates of the First Section of the Criminal Chamber agree to annul the preventive detention of this defendant – agreed on June 22, 2022 for this cause – and who faces a request for 30 years in prison for a crime of terrorist murder together with the former head of ETA Mikel Garikoitz Carrera Sarobe, Ata.
The Court has agreed to send the corresponding release order to the Madrid penitentiary center where he is located as this is the only case pending and that given the Chamber’s decision could even be acquitted.
The prosecutor of the National Court Ángela Gómez-Rodulfo yesterday presented her final report in which she maintained that the trial had proven “without a doubt” the authorship of the two ETA members and maintained her request for 30 years in prison for both .
His defenses, on the contrary, requested the acquittal for lack of evidence, and Zaldua’s lawyer, shortly before the trial was scheduled for sentencing, asked the Chamber for his “immediate” release because he has been in pretrial detention for two years. without it being possible to prove his participation in this murder.
Petition to which the Chamber, made up of judges Francisco José Viera, María Riera (rapporteur) and José Ricardo de Prada, has finally acceded.