Otegui was released from prison in March 2016 after serving part of a
10-year sentence for membership of ETA that was handed down in 2011. His sentence
included the 10-year election ban. He was convicted of membership of ETA and
acting illegally at its orders. A conviction of being a leader of ETA was quashed
on appeal and the prison sentence was reduced to 6½ years, although the 10-year
disbarment still stands. We have full respect for that decision and are happy
to say explicitly that Arnaldo Otegui was not a leader of ETA. In exactly the
same way that Gerry Adams was never a leader of the IRA.
In 1979 he was convicted of kidnapping a businessman and sentenced to
six years, which he served from 1979 – 1983
In 2006 he got 15 months for glorification of terrorism.
The GuETArdian
knows all this because it has Stephen Burgen and Sam Jones in Spain and they
tell GuETArdian Central what is going on here. It’s what they’re paid for. But the
editor Katharine Viner ignores them. Why? Because she is dazzled by the word “progressive”
perhaps. Or is she following the ancient British policy of strictly observing
the law at home while fostering mayhem abroad? With Brexit approaching, Gibraltar
could get a bit tricky, and the GuETArdian may have decided that a touch of
anti-Spanish feeling never goes amiss.
After all (as we reported here), on 14 October the GuETArdian gave a platform to Carles Puigdemont, a man on the run from extremely serious criminal charges in Spain, charges for which his comrades have received 11½ years. It is well known that his lawyer Gonzalo Boye once got 14 years for taking part in an ETA kidnapping. The other day the Spanish Policía Nacional raided Boye's home searching for evidence of laundering drug money.
They say that
you can judge a person by the company that they keep.
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GuETArdian editor Katharine Viner with
her new best friends.
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Sources
(Spanish)
ABC
(What offences has Otegui been found guilty of?)
Wikipedia
vozpópuli
(Gonzalo Boye: Puigdemont’s lawyer convicted of
collaborating with ETA)
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