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ETA terrorist Antonio Troitiño to be extradited from UK after failed asylum application
29/04/2017
WESTMINSTER court has finally given the green light for ETA terrorist Antonio Troitiño to be extradited to Spain.
The accused (pictured), who had been living in London for about a year before the Spanish justice system issued an arrest warrant for him in 2012, is currently in Belmarsh high-security prison and could be deported within the next 10 days.
Troitiño had initially been released from jail in Spain, but due to law changes and additional offences linked to his past with the Basque separatist cell, he was called back to his home country to return to custody.
For the last five years, judges in London have been weighing up whether or not to extradite him after he fought the order on the basis his human rights could be in danger.
Troitiño claimed that Spain's feelings about ETA would mean he could be treated extra-harshly once in prison in the the country.
And at the time he moved to the UK, terrorism was not considered a separate crime as it was in Spain, which had had a much longer history of it.
The former ETA member, since the arrest warrant arrived from Spain, filed an application for asylum in the UK.
This has been turned down.
To date, Troitiño, 59, has successfully fought off three extradition attempts.
The first of these was in October 2013 when the European Court of Human Rights ruled Spain could not retroactively apply the so-called 'Parot Doctrine', whereby early-release 'credits' for work undertaken in prison applied to the actual sentence – which could run into hundreds or thousands of years – rather than the maximum permitted custodial term.
As a result of the Parot Doctrine not having been applied, Troitiño was released after 24 years rather than the limit of 30, having accumulated early-release credits, but Spain wanted to apply these credits to his actual sentence, which was over 1,000 years, meaning he would never be released until he had served the 30-year maximum.
Troitiño's offences include the bombing of a Guardia Civil bus in Madrid's Plaza de la República Dominicana in 1986 – along with Inés del Río Prada, the first ETA member to be released after Europe revoked the Parot Doctrine – and in which 12 police officers were killed and over 50 people injured.
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WESTMINSTER court has finally given the green light for ETA terrorist Antonio Troitiño to be extradited to Spain.
The accused (pictured), who had been living in London for about a year before the Spanish justice system issued an arrest warrant for him in 2012, is currently in Belmarsh high-security prison and could be deported within the next 10 days.
Troitiño had initially been released from jail in Spain, but due to law changes and additional offences linked to his past with the Basque separatist cell, he was called back to his home country to return to custody.
For the last five years, judges in London have been weighing up whether or not to extradite him after he fought the order on the basis his human rights could be in danger.
Troitiño claimed that Spain's feelings about ETA would mean he could be treated extra-harshly once in prison in the the country.
And at the time he moved to the UK, terrorism was not considered a separate crime as it was in Spain, which had had a much longer history of it.
The former ETA member, since the arrest warrant arrived from Spain, filed an application for asylum in the UK.
This has been turned down.
To date, Troitiño, 59, has successfully fought off three extradition attempts.
The first of these was in October 2013 when the European Court of Human Rights ruled Spain could not retroactively apply the so-called 'Parot Doctrine', whereby early-release 'credits' for work undertaken in prison applied to the actual sentence – which could run into hundreds or thousands of years – rather than the maximum permitted custodial term.
As a result of the Parot Doctrine not having been applied, Troitiño was released after 24 years rather than the limit of 30, having accumulated early-release credits, but Spain wanted to apply these credits to his actual sentence, which was over 1,000 years, meaning he would never be released until he had served the 30-year maximum.
Troitiño's offences include the bombing of a Guardia Civil bus in Madrid's Plaza de la República Dominicana in 1986 – along with Inés del Río Prada, the first ETA member to be released after Europe revoked the Parot Doctrine – and in which 12 police officers were killed and over 50 people injured.
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