- The reason for the conviction is not to allow the defence of prisoners. The prisoners' petition comes from afar and was suspended in spring. Strasbourg closed the request for the addition of the sentences of sixteen prisoners of eta to the prisoners.
The Strasbourg court had taken two similar decisions in the same direction last June. Sixteen Basque prisoners in the Spanish State requested an assessment of the sentences carried out in France: The Strasbourg Court again ruled that “This Court considers that further analysis of applications is not justified”.
This November, however, the European Court of Human Rights has condemned Spain for systematically rejecting the remedies for these applications.
According to the EFE agency, the Court of Strasbourg has held that the prisoners of eta Ismael Berasategi and Rufino Arriaga "have violated their legal security".
In any case, basically, the court in Strasbourg is still on the road it took in the past. France, for its part, supported Spain’s decision not to take into account or take into account the sanctions imposed on Spain. Both Arriaga and Berasategi called for the sentence to be served in France, with the aim of reducing the penalty in Spain, but the petition remained unrecognised.