Starting this Monday, he will enjoy semi-freedom to undergo “care treatment.” The Department of Justice of the Government of the Basque Country has agreed to apply article 100.2 of the Penitentiary Regulations, which makes compliance with the sentence more flexible, as announced The Mail and this newspaper has confirmed. Thus, the inmate will be able to leave the Zaballa penitentiary center (Álava) from Monday to Friday, although he will spend the night in prison. With him there are now 19 ETA prisoners in semi-freedom due to the application of the aforementioned article.
Shortly after the Basque Government’s decision was announced, the Collective of Victims of Terrorism (Covite) has criticized the measure, considering that it constitutes “a new fraud in the execution of the sentences of ETA prisoners” and “confirms that the covert amnesty for the group’s terrorists is accelerating.” In a statement released this Monday, he insisted that the “widespread use” of article 100.2 is “distorting both the exceptional nature of this measure and the legal requirement of repentance.”
Tellería – who will continue in the second degree of prison although made more flexible so that he can continue “care treatment” – joined ETA in 1972 and was a member of the ‘Txabi Etxebarrieta commando’ since 1974, when the split between ETA-military and political-military took place. This is about the command placing explosive devices against the Civil Guard Barracks House in Erandio, the DNI Office in Bilbao and an ‘ikurriña-trap’ in Arrigorriaga.
Tellería fled to France in 1980 and later returned to Spain as a freed member of the ‘Goierri Kosta commando’, which participated in the attack against the Haizea bar in Zarautz (Gipuzkoa) in which five people died, four of them Civil Guard agents. A year later, in June 1981, and upon being surprised in a police operation in Zarautz, the command to which Tellería belonged murdered Inspector María Josefa García Sánchez, 23 years old, the first police woman killed at the hands of ETA in the act of duty.
In October 1982, this same command attacked the Civil Guard Barracks in Leiza (Navarra). In this terrorist action, Gregorio Hernández Corchete, who was at the barracks renewing his hunting license, was killed and two civil guards were injured. Tellería, alias ‘Antxoka’, fled again to France and then took refuge in Mexico. in an operation developed by the Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN) of Mexico and the General Information Commissariat of the Spanish National Police.
