Overview
- COVITE denounced the newly granted third-degree prison regime for Asier Arzalluz Goñi as fraudulent and a step toward a hidden amnesty.
- The group formally urged the Prosecutor’s Office at Spain’s National Court to appeal the measure, with no public indication yet of whether it will act.
- Basque Justice Minister María Jesús San José said the regional administration applies penitentiary law with complete rigor and acknowledged the pain such decisions cause victims.
- COVITE cited Arzalluz Goñi’s appearance on the latest Etxerat list and public displays of his image as signs of ongoing links to the abertzale milieu.
- La Razón reports that Arzalluz Goñi was sentenced on December 3, 2024, to 30 years for his role in the 2000 killing of journalist José Luis López de Lacalle, and that he has now advanced to third degree in under two years.