Francisco Javier García Gaztelu

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Francisco Javier García Gaztelu (fighting name Txapote ;) (born February 12, 1966 in Bilbao , Spain ) is a convicted Spanish terrorist and a former leader of the Basque terrorist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA).

Participation in the ETA

Francisco Javier García Gaztelu was a member of ETA and had the code name "Txapote". He was also the organization's military chief. He was involved on January 23, 1995 in the murder of the Basque Conservative politician Gregorio Ordóñez in San Sebastián and on February 6, 1996 in the murder of the socialist politician Fernando Múgica Herzog, also in San Sebastián. On July 13, 1997, he and his partner Irantzu Gallastegi Sudupe murdered the 29-year-old conservative Basque local politician Miguel Ángel Blanco Garrido after they had previously detained him for two days after being kidnapped. This murder sparked horror and disgust in the vast majority of Basques and in many Basque nationalists the “delegitimization” of ETA, the end of the willingness to defend ETA and its methods for even longer. García Gaztelu and Gallastegi Sudupe made a decisive contribution to the downfall of ETA.

On February 22, 2001, he was arrested as part of a major police operation in Anglet , France. In several trials in 2006, García Gaztelu was awarded 30 years imprisonment for involvement in the murder of Ordóñez, 82 years imprisonment for involvement in the murder of Múgica Herzog and for involvement in the murder of Blanco by judges of the criminal chamber of the Audiencia Nacional de España Garrido sentenced to 50 years in prison. All acts were counted as acts of terrorism. In the event of a release from court, he is banned from entering the Basque town of Ermua , Blanco Garrido's hometown, for five years , and San Sebastián for six years.

On November 7, 2011, he was found guilty by a Spanish court of the murder of Fernando Buesa and his bodyguard in February 2000 and received 105 years' imprisonment.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Former ETA military chief sentenced to 105 years in prison. In: ORF . November 7, 2011, accessed November 7, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Christian Rößler: Inconvenient commemoration. Eta murdered the young city councilor Miguel Ángel Blanco 20 years ago. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 13, 2017, p. 3.
personal data
SURNAME García Gaztelu, Francisco Javier
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Txapote (alias)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish terrorist and a former ETA leader
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilbao , Spain