Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina

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Mikel Garikoïtz Aspiazu Rubina (born July 6, 1973 in Bilbao ; better known as Txeroki ) was the military chief of the Basque underground organization ETA . Rubina was one of the most wanted ETA terrorists and was arrested on November 17, 2008 in Cauterets , France .

Life

Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, alias "Txeroki", was involved in militant ETA sympathetic groups in his youth and worked in bars close to ETA in the old town of Bilbao. He was active in the kale borroka , Basque for “street fighting”, which was directed against the Spanish state. The attacks and murders he is accused of began in 2001 and ended at the end of 2007. Aspiazu Rubina is accused, among other things, of the murder of the Spanish-Catalan judge José María Lidón in Bilbao, who was shot in front of his garage.

Aspiazu Rubina is seen as the driving force behind the break of the ceasefire in 2004, after initially successful negotiations with Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to find a peaceful solution to the Basque Country problem. He categorically rejects the dialogue with Madrid.

The then Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba accused him, among other things, of the murder of two Spanish civil guards on December 1, 2007 in Capbreton. Rubina is said to have been the perpetrator, according to statements by imprisoned ETA members. The bomb attack on the parking garage of Madrid's main Barajas airport in December 2006 , in which two Ecuadorians were killed, broke the ceasefire agreed between Madrid and ETA. Aspiazu Rubina is said to have decisively directed this.

Thanks to the cooperation of the Spanish Guardia Civil and the French police, he and the wanted Leire López Zurutza were arrested on November 17, 2008 in Cauterets.

Even before his arrest, Rubina was sentenced to six years in prison by a French judge for membership of the ETA.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Arrest in the south of France - police arrest most wanted ETA military chief. Hamburger Abendblatt , November 17, 2008, archived from the original on February 10, 2013 ; accessed on December 30, 2016 .
  2. ↑ ETA shoots judges in the Basque Country . dpa article in Handelsblatt , November 7, 2001, accessed December 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Txeroki" será por juzgado atentado de Barajas que mató a dos Ecuatorianos . AFP article in El Tiempo , November 24, 2008, accessed December 30, 2016 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Miguel De Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, alias “Txeroki” arrested. Herald Sun , November 18, 2008; archived from the original on September 6, 2012 ; accessed on December 30, 2016 (English). Detenido en Francia 'Txeroki', the maximum responsable de los 'comandos' de ETA . EFE article in 20 minutos , November 17, 2008, accessed December 30, 2016 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ José A. Sorolla: La jueza de París encarcela a 'Txeroki' como líder terrorista . El Periodico de Aragón, November 22, 2008, accessed December 30, 2016 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Aspiazu Rubina, Mikel Garikoitz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aspiazu, Garikoitz; Txeroki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Basque terrorist from ETA
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Bilbao