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The Basque nationalist newspapers Gara and Berria report on April 20, 2018 that the separatist group ETA apologizes for the pain the terrorist attack has created and promises not to use violence anymore. Stock Photography.
A French appeals court has ruled not to extradite a former Basque separatist group ETA to Spain for the time being.
The reason for the refusal is that Iratxe Sorzabal Díaz, 49, may have been tortured to admit his participation in a bomb attack in 1996, according to the Paris judge. She claimed that she was subjected to suffocation and electric shocks while in custody in 2001.
Spain denies the allegations of torture, but medical studies and international organizations have supported its version.
However, the French Supreme Court of Cassation has approved extradition in three other cases related to Iratxe Sorzabal Díaz. First, however, she will serve a prison sentence expiring in May 2023, found guilty of being part of a terrorist conspiracy.
ETA fought for Basque independence for more than four decades, before the organization officially dissolved in 2018. Attacks carried out by its members had claimed more than 850 lives.
