A JUDGE IN NORTHERN IRELAND yesterday approved a request from the Spanish government to extradite an ETA terrorist.
Iñaki de Juana Chaos has lived in Northern Ireland since being released from prison in Spain in 2008. However, Spanish judges have been seeking to bring him to trial since March 2009 for an alleged crime of incitement to terrorism after a letter attributed to de Juana Chaos was read out at a meeting in San Sebastian.
Judge Tom Burgess ruled in favour of the extradition order yesterday. Sr de Juana’s lawyers now have seven days to appeal against the sentence. They are expected to do so on grounds of mental health. Last November, Sr de Juana used a psychiatrist’s report claiming that 21 years in prison had left him suffering from stress in order to avoid extradition.
As a member of the Comando Madrid terrorist cell, Sr de Juana was found guilty of killing 25 people after being arrested in 1987. He staged a much publicised hunger strike in 2006 and came close to dying.
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