Iñaki de Juana Chaos
José Ignacio de Juana Chaos (also Iñaki de Juana Chaos ) (born September 21, 1955 in Legazpia , Gipuzkoa , Spain ) is a former Spanish ETA member.
Work at ETA
In 1986 De Juana was the leader of the Madrid Commando, a group that attacked targets in the Madrid area. In addition to De Juana, the group also included Juan Manuel Soares Gamboa, Idoia López Riaño and Belén González Peñalva ("Carmen"). According to former ETA member Soares Gamboa, it was de Juana who selected the victims and determined which member of the commando should shoot. The chronology of his deeds:
- On June 12, 1985, his group shot at Colonel Vicente Romero and his driver Juan García Jiménez. Both died. After this murder, the terrorists hid a bomb trap in their getaway vehicle. The following explosion killed the policeman Esteban del Amo.
- On July 29, 1985, de Juana shot Vice Admiral Fausto Escrigas Estrada.
- On September 9, 1985, a car bomb exploded in the Plaza de la República Argentina next to a Guardia Civil car . None of the police officers were killed, but the blast injured the American Eugene Kent Brown, who was jogging past, so badly that he died of it two days later.
- On April 25, 1986, de Juan set off another car bomb in Madrid. The explosion killed five police officers (Juan Carlos González, Vicente Javier Domínguez, Juan José Catón Vázquez, Juan Mateos Pulido and Alberto Alonso Gómez) guarding foreign embassies in the Salamanca district.
- On June 17, 1986, Major Ricardo Sáenz de Ynestrillas Martínez's car was machine gunshot. The major, Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Vesteiro Pérez and the soldier Francisco Casillas Martín died. Soares Gamboa stated that De Juana was unaware of Sáenz de Ynestrilla's connection to the coup at the time; this was simply an easy target.
- De Juana confessed to participating in the attack against a convoy of the Guardia Civil. His car bomb in the Plaza de la República Dominicana killed 12 police officers in training on July 14, 1986 (Jesús María Freixes, Santiago Iglesias Rodino, Carmelo B. Álamo, Miguel A. Cornejo Ros, José Calvo Gutiérrez, Andrés José Fernández Pertierra, Antonio Lancharro Reyes, José Joaquín García Ruiz, Jesús Gimeno Gimeno, Juan Ignacio Calvo Guerrero, Javier Esteban and Ángel de la Higuera López) and injured 45 other people.
Conviction and release
On January 16, 1987, he was arrested in Madrid and sentenced to over 3,000 years in prison for 25 murders. He was supposed to have been released after a good 18 years, but given his declared membership of the ETA and various threats from prison, he was sentenced on November 6, 2006 to an additional 12 years in prison. The sentence has now been reduced to 3 years by the Spanish Supreme Court Audiencia Nacional de España .
Since August 7, 2006, Chaos has been on hunger strike to force his immediate release, but is force-fed in a Madrid hospital . In 2006 and 2007 he went on hunger strike twice to protest against a new conviction for publishing polemical articles in a Basque newspaper. On August 2, 2008, he was released from prison after 21 years. Chaos was picked up from Aranjuez prison by two lawyers and his wife .
On September 24th, 2008, the Spanish judiciary issued an international arrest warrant against Chaos and asked Interpol for help. The reason is that after his release from prison, Chaos glorified terrorism and did not appear for a hearing in San Sebastian. On November 17th, 2008, Chaos was arrested in Belfast .
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| SURNAME | Juana Chaos, Iñaki de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Juana Chaos, José Ignacio de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish ETA terrorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Legazpia , Gipuzkoa |