Belgium Extradites Former ETA Member To Spain
Umer Jamshaid Published November 23, 2020 | 02:10 AM
Madrid, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Nov, 2020 ) :Belgium on Sunday extradited to Spain a former member of Basque separatist group ETA who is wanted by Madrid for the 1981 murder of a Spanish lieutenant colonel, the authorities said.
Spanish police escorted Maria Natividad Jauregui Espina, who was living in the Belgium city of Ghent, on her flight to Spain, Spain's national police force said in a statement.
Belgium's Court of Cassation, which serves as the final court of appeal, on Tuesday authorised her extradition, which had been refused three different times by lower courts.
The police statement said Jauregui Espina, who worked as a cook in Belgium, is wanted in Spain for her participation in a series of ETA attacks in the 1980s, including the 1981 murder of Lieutenant Colonel Ramon Romeo Rotaeche in Bilbao, the financial capital of Spain's northern Basque Country.
She is also wanted for "membership in a criminal organisation."Created in 1959 at the height of Francisco Franco's dictatorship, ETA waged a relentless campaign of killings and kidnappings in its fight for an independent Basque homeland in northern Spain and southwest France, leaving at least 853 dead.
Weakened by the arrest of its leaders, ETA announced a permanent ceasefire in 2011 and began formally surrendering its arms in 2017. In May 2018 it was formally dissolved.
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