Overview
- Judge Santiago Pedraz ordered the search, arrest and remand of José Antonio Urrutikoetxea and issued a new European arrest warrant within the Herriko Tabernas financing investigation.
- The judicial decision cites documents and audio found on devices seized during his 2019 arrest in the French Alps, including internal ETA materials and voice analysis tied to the 2018 dissolution statement.
- The resolution is not final and can be appealed within three days, while the order has been circulated to European authorities for action.
- Urrutikoetxea remains under judicial supervision in Anglet, France, where he reports periodically, and he still faces a separate French proceeding for association with terrorist purposes.
- His defense opposes issuing a new warrant, arguing the previous one should only be expanded, as he also faces Spanish cases such as the 1987 Zaragoza barracks attack for which prosecutors seek 2,354 years.